Title: Mathilde Blind : late-Victorian culture and the woman of letters /
Authors: Diedrick, James, 1951-
Year: 2016
Subjects: Blind, Mathilde,; Blind, Mathilde, Political and social views.; Blind, Mathilde, Criticism and interpretation.; Blind, Mathilde,; Women authors, English Biography.; Women critics Great Britain Biography.; Feminists Great Britain Biography.; Feminists; Political and social views.; Women authors, English.; Women critics; Great Britain
Abstract: "A critical biography of the British poet Mathilde Blind (1841-1896)--a free-thinking radical feminist in late-Victorian London. Diedrick underscores the importance of Blind's poetry and her critical writings (her work on Shelley, biographies of George Eliot and Madame Roland, and her translations of Feuerbach and Bashkirtseff) for the literature and culture of the fin de siècle" --
Contents: Chronology -- The making of a cosmopolitan: 1841-1867 -- Romancing Shelley and others: 1868-1870 -- A pioneering female aesthete: 1871-1872 -- Translating Strauss, traveling in Scotland: 1873-1874 -- Freethinkers and feminists: 1874-1881 -- Biographer, novelist, polemical poet: 1882-1887 -- A leading new woman: 1888-1893 -- "But a bird of passage": 1893-1896.