By considering both male and female friendships, this book uncovers parallels between them in novels and poetry by authors such as Dickens, Tennyson, Disraeli and Braddon. It also examines conduct…

This book provides a necessary critical reappraisal of one of the most challenging and subversive of nineteenth-century women writers.

This five-volume series, British Women’s Writing From Bronte to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940, historically contextualizes and traces developments in women’s fiction from 1840 to 1940.

The novels in this collection include one by a fierce opponent to the New Woman movement, as well as two from women whose work can be seen as archetypal New…

Contains three early examples of the genre of New Woman writing, each portraying women in ways wholly different to those which had gone before

Covers four texts from the 1890s that helped to crystallize the idea of the ‘New Woman’ during a period where the role of women was increasingly debated and challenged, not…