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...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Reus, Anne (Autor)
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
Acceso en línea:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv2x1nr17
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.