Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign
A Book of Appreciations

Critical appraisals from 1897 of the works of a selection of the best-loved women writers active during Queen Victoria's reign.

Margaret Oliphant (Author)

9781108033879, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 3 November 2011

328 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.9 cm, 0.42 kg

Women novelists dominated the market in Victorian times, covering all genres from the mainstream to the Gothic, religious and sensational. Some are now classic household names whilst others, popular in their time, lie neglected on the shelves. This collection of appraisals of female writers by female writers was published in 1897 as a contribution to the celebrations of Queen Victoria as the longest reigning British monarch. The brief is exact: only those whose work was done after the Queen's accession and who were dead would be included. Nonetheless, the range is wide and includes essays on the Brontës, George Eliot and Mrs Gaskell, by Margaret Oliphant, Eliza Lynn Linton and Ada Ellen Bayly respectively, as well as appraisals of Catherine Crowe, Mrs Archer Clive and Mrs Henry Wood (author of East Lynne), by Adeline Sergeant, and the children's authors Charlotte Tucker and Juliana Ewing by Emma Marshall.

Publishers' note
The sisters Brontë Mrs. Oliphant
George Eliot Mrs. Lynn Linton
Mrs. Gaskell Edna Lyall
Mrs. Crowe, Mrs Archer Clive, Mrs. Henry Wood Adeline Sergeant
Lady Georgiana Fullerton, Mrs. Stretton, Anne Manning Charlotte M. Yonge
Dinah Mulock (Mrs. Craik) Mrs. Parr
Julia Kavanagh, Amelia Blandford Edwards Mrs. Macquoid
Mrs. Norton Mrs. Alexander
'A.L.O.E.' (Miss Tucker) Mrs. Marshall.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF]