Virginia Woolf and nineteenth-century women writers : Victorian legacies and literary afterlives /
This book examines Virginia Woolf's influence on the literary afterlives of nineteenth-century women of letters including Jane Austen, Mary Russell Mitford, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Margaret Oliphant and Mary Augusta Ward through her journalism. Woolf's...
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv2x1nr17 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Rainbow and granite, women and biography
- 2. 'Vain are these speculations' : Jane Austen and female perfection
- 3. 'Even a lady sometimes raises her voice' : Mary Russell Mitford and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- 4. 'That indefinable something' : Charlotte Brontë and protest
- 5. 'A gap in your library, Madam' : the lives of professional women
- 6. Writing Virginia Woolf : autobiographical fragments.