British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 3: 1880s and 1890s

Acknowledgements
Series Introduction
Works Cited
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
1 Introduction
	Women’s Writing of the 1880s
	Women’s Writing of the 1890s
	Note
	References
Part I Women’s Writing of the 1880s
2 Edith Simcox on George Eliot: Transgendered Portraits in Episodes in the Lives of Men, Women, and Lovers
	Notes
	Works Cited
3 Domestic Metaphors and Scientific Illustration: Frances Power Cobbe and the Anti-Vivisection Movement in the 1880s
	Historical Background
	The Janus of Science
	Light in Dark Places
	Jack. A Mendicant
	Pompey’s Peril
	Conclusion
	Works Cited
4 ‘A Ghost Indeed’: Spectralising the Female Householder in Margaret Oliphant’s 1880s Fiction
	Debates about Married Women’s Property in the 1880s
	The Ghost Story and Generational Ties Between Women
	The Female Householder and Exclusion in The Mystery of Mrs. Blencarrow
	Works Cited
5 Between the Aesthete and the Shopworker: Mind and Labour In Vernon Lee and Amy Levy
	Works Cited
6 Writing for the Masses: Ouida and Newspaper Syndication
	Works Cited
7 Adopting the Next Generation: Parenting in Women’s Writing of the 1880s
	Family Business: Oliphant’s Hester (1883)
	Ghostly Influence in Late Victorian Domestic Fiction: Yonge’s Chantry House (1886)
	Influence and Inheritance in Craik’s Adoption Novel King Arthur (1886).
	Notes
	Works Cited
8 ‘Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves’: Anna Kingsford’s Dreams and Dream-Stories (1888)
	Notes
	Works Cited
9 ‘We are one’: Fellowship Ideals and Social Transformation in Mona Caird’s The Wing of Azrael
	Notes
	Works Cited
Part II Women’s Writing of the 1890s
10 Notable or Invisible? Reassessing Women Writers of the 1890s
	Introduction
	The Late-Victorian Literary Marketplace
	John Strange Winter: A Thoroughly Domestic Woman?
	A Room of One’s Own?: The Politics of Space
	The Rebel of the Family: Eliza Lynn Linton
	Florence Marryat: A Purveyor of Dangerously Inflammatory Fiction?
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Works Cited
11 Exploring Women’s Possibilities at the Fin de Siècle: Sarah Grand’s Quest for Women’s Enlightenment
	Notes
	Works Cited
12 New Humour, New Dialogue: Ada Leverson\'s Contributions to Punch and The Yellow Book
	Notes
	Works Cited
13 George Paston’s Fin-de-Siècle Feminism: Caught Between a Book and a Hard Place
	A Modern Amazon
	A Study in Prejudices
	The Career of Candida
	A Fair Deceiver
	A Writer of Books
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Works Cited
14 ‘A good deal of risk … and a chance of danger’: Detection, Adventure, and Violence in Beatrice Heron-Maxwell’s The Adventures of a Lady Pearl-Broker
	Notes
	Works Cited
15 Woman Hate, Disgust, and National Happiness in the 1890s: Marie Corelli’s The Sorrows of Satan
	Phenomenally Popular Marie Corelli’s Approach to Literary Emotions
	The Pursuit of Happiness
	Accounting for the Dissatisfaction of 1890s Society
	A Blueprint for the Successful Pursuit of Happiness?
	Woman Hate in Explorations of Happiness and Unhappiness
	Concluding Thoughts About Modernity, Happiness, and Woman Hate—Disgust
	Notes
	References
16 ‘[S]uch a nasty, sneering book’: Class, Gender, and Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler’s Concerning Isabel Carnaby
	Works Cited
17 Women’s Quest for Independence in the 1890s: Mary Cholmondeley’s Diana Tempest and Red Pottage
	Works Cited
Index