Writing Women of the Fin de Siècle: Authors of Change

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
‘She would write… in invisible ink’: An Introduction....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Re-Viewing Women Writers of the Fin de Siècle: Recent Critical Trends....Pages 15-27
Sons of Fire and A Lost Eden: Expectations of Narrative and Protocols of Reading in Mary Braddon’s Fin-de-Siècle Fiction....Pages 28-42
‘The method of life we all lead’: Olive Schreiner’s Short Fiction as Challenge to the Stage Method....Pages 43-54
‘Let Your Life on Earth Be Life Indeed’: Aestheticism and Secularism in Mathilde Blind’s The Prophecy of St. Oran and ‘On a Torso of Cupid’....Pages 55-69
Editing Michael Field: Taking Fin-de-Siécle Women’s Poetry to a Broader Audience....Pages 70-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
‘I am not by nature domestic’: Mary Cholmondeley and the Politics of Home....Pages 85-97
Having a Good Time Single? The Bachelor Girl in 1890s New Woman Fiction....Pages 98-110
Fin-de-Siècle Female Biographers and the Reconsideration of Popular Women Writers....Pages 111-123
‘I have expiated my sins to you at last’: Motherhood in Victoria Cross’s Colonial Fiction....Pages 124-136
‘C. L. Pirkis (not “Miss”)’: Public Women, Private Lives, and The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective....Pages 137-150
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
The Seventh Wave of Humanity: Hysteria and Moral Evolution in Sarah Grand’s The Heavenly Twins....Pages 153-165
‘A queer sort of interest’: Vernon Lee’s Homoerotic Allusion to John Singer Sargent and John Addington Symonds....Pages 166-178
Under the Hill: The ‘Man Question’ in the New Woman Novels of Marie Corelli, Jessie Fothergill, and Mary Linskill....Pages 179-192
‘Your loving is unlike any other’: Romance and the Disabled Body in the Gothic Fiction of Edith Nesbit and Lucas Malet....Pages 193-203
Athletic Bodies Narrated: New Women in Fin-de-Siècle Fiction....Pages 204-218
Back Matter....Pages 219-228