Nineteenth century women writers
Publisher: Adam Matthew
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Marlborough, Wiltshire [England]
Language: eng
Format: [microform]
Number of pages: 25
Subjects: English literature; Women authors; Sources
Notes: Nineteenth-century women writers entered public discourse and engaged with some of the controversial topics of the day: marriage and divorce, class boundaries, bigamy, prostitution, the sexual double standard, male and female sexuality, masculinity, motherhood and degeneration. This collection provides a sample of the kind of novel which formed the mainstay of lending libraries in the later nineteenth century but have long been out of print. The women authors represented were all popular, most were very prolific, and many reached huge audiences through newspaper serialisation in Britain and abroad in the last decades of the century.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Authors including Matilda Betham-Edwards, Florence Marryat, Helen Mathers, Charlotte Riddell, Dora Russell, Adeline Seargeant and Emma Jane Worboise (25 reels)