The Cambridge companion to Victorian womens writing The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Womens Writing brings together chapters by leading scholars to provide innovative and comprehensive coverage of Victorian women writers careers and literary achievements. While incorporating the scholarly insights of modern feminist criticism it also reflects new approaches to women authors that have emerged with the rise of book history; periodical studies; performance studies; post colonial studies; and scholarship on authorship readership and publishing. It traces the Victorian woman writers career from making her debut to working with publishers and editors to achieving literary fame and challenges previous thinking about genres in which women contributed with success. Chapters on poetry including a discussion of poetry in colonial and imperial contexts reveal womens engagements with each other and male writers. Discussions on drama life writing reviewing history travel writing and childrens literature uncover the remarkable achievement of women in fields relatively unknown