This anthology of literary criticism by Victorian women of letters brings together a wealth of difficult-to-find writings.
Solveig C. Robinson is an Assistant Professor of English at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
xi
Characters of Intellect: Portia (1832)
1
(22)
Anna Jameson
Achievements of the Genius of Scott (December 1832)
23
(23)
Harriet Martineau
Review of Vanity Fair and Jane Eyre (December 1848)
46
(28)
Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake
People Who Do Not Like Poetry (May 1849)
74
(7)
Eliza Cook
Editor's Preface to the New Edition of Wuthering Heights (1850)
81
(7)
Charlotte Bronte
Silly Novels by Lady Novelists (October 1856)
88
(28)
George Eliot
To Novelists---and a Novelist (April 1861)
116
(15)
Dinah Mulock Craik
The Uses and Pleasures of Poetry for the Working Classes (1863)
131
(7)
Janet Hamilton
Review of Cometh Up as a Flower (April 1867)
138
(6)
Geraldine Jewsbury
Novels (September 1867)
144
(31)
Margaret Oliphant
A Remonstrance (November 1867)
175
(12)
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
On Fiction as an Educator (October 1870)
187
(21)
Anne Mozley
Browning's Poems (December 1870)
208
(26)
Elizabeth Julia Hasell
Jane Austen (August 1871)
234
(20)
Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Style and Miss Austen (December 1884)
254
(15)
Mary Augusta (Mrs. Humphry) Ward
Women's Books---A Possible Library (May 1889)
269
(8)
Helen Blackburn
Literature: Then and Now (April 1890)
277
(22)
Eliza Lynn Linton
Christina Rossetti (February 1895)
299
Alice Meynell
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