Love and the Woman Question in Victorian Literature: The Art of Self-Postponement

To love or to write?óthis was the crucial question facing the major women novelists of the nineteenth-century and one that was constantly re-enacted in their fiction. Examining themes and styles, placing books and writers within their intellectual and cultural contexts, and considering the sources of female artists' creativity, Blake discusses Christina Rosetti, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Olive Schreiner, major male novelists such as George Gissing and Thomas Hardy, and a host of lesser-known figures.