Eve's Renegades: Victorian Anti-Feminist Women Novelists

Literature & Fiction

Sanders, Valerie

History & Criticism

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Examining Victorian middle-class fatherhood from the fathers' own perspective, Valerie Sanders dismantles the persistent stereotype of the nineteenth-century paterfamilias by focusing on the intimate family lives of influential public men. Beginning with Prince Albert as a high-profile patriarchal role-model, and comparing the parallel case histories of prominent Victorians such as Dickens, Darwin, Huxley and Gladstone, the book explores the strains on men in public life as they managed their private relationship with their children and found a language for the expression of their pleasure, grief and anxiety as fathers. In a context of cultural uncertainty about the legal rights and moral responsibilities of fatherhood, the study draws on a wealth of unpublished journals and letters to show how conscientious Victorian fathers in effect invented a meaningful domestic role for themselves which has been little understood.

The Tragi-Comedy of Victorian Fatherhood (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 65)

British & Irish

Cambridge University Press

Records of Girlhood: Volume Two: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women’s Childhoods (The Nineteenth Century Series)

In this sequel to her 2000 anthology, Valerie Sanders again brings together an influential group of women whose autobiographical accounts of their childhoods show them making sense of the children they were and the women they have become. The fourteen women included juxtapose recollections of the bizarre with the quotidian and accounts of external events with the development of a complex inner life. Reading and acting are important themes, as is the precariousness of childhood, whether occasioned by a father's financial pressures or the early death of a parent. Significantly, most grew up expecting to earn their own living. The collection includes children's authors (Frances Hodgson Burnett and E. Nesbit), political figures (Emmeline Pankhurst and Louisa Twining), and well-known writers (Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Sarah Grand). Of relevance to scholars working in the fields of women’s autobiography, the history of childhood, and Victorian literature, this anthology includes a scholarly introduction and brief biographical sketches of each woman.

Teen & Young Adult

Routledge

The Collected Letters of Harriet Martineau Vol 2: Volume 2 Letters 1837–1845

Logan, Deborah

Children's Books

Ruskin grew up in suburban London; in later life, he settled in the Lake District . Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle moved in the opposite direction - from rural Scotland to London's Cheyne Walk. This title focuses on writers for whom 'the centre' was a pressing concern.

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part III, Volume 1: Elizabeth Gaskell, the Carlyles and John Ruskin

Pite, Ralph

Christianson, Aileen

Grimble, Simon

A Mcintosh, Sheila

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part III, Volume 2: Elizabeth Gaskell, the Carlyles and John Ruskin

The Collected Letters of Harriet Martineau Vol 1: Letters 1819–1837

<p>Throughout her fifty-year career, Harriet Martineau's prolific literary output was matched only by her exchanges with a range of high-profile British, American and European correspondents. This set focuses on the letters written by Martineau, contextualising the correspondence through annotation of the highest standard.</p>

The Collected Letters of Harriet Martineau Vol 4: Letters 1856–1862

Literary

Throughout her fifty-year career, Harriet Martineau's prolific literary output was matched only by her exchanges with a range of high-profile British, American and European correspondents. This set focuses on the letters written by Martineau, contextualising the correspondence through annotation of the highest standard.

The Collected Letters of Harriet Martineau Vol 5: Letters 1863–1876

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