British Women Writers and the Short Story, 1850–1930
Reclaiming Social Space
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Kate Krueger
Literary Theory
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Introduction: Feminine Occupations
‘I will begin by saying, for the encouragement of would-be writers, that there never was a greater opening for short stories than at present, for magazines multiply nowadays faster than do good writers.’ So be...
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Braddon, Broughton, and Specters of Social Critique
Victorian homes, like Victorian women, could earn reputations. The pervasiveness of Victorian ghost stories revolving around the haunted house point to the vulnerability of that location. In much of mid-Victor...
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Baynton and Mansfield’s Unsettling Women
In February 1913, Sydney was abuzz with excitement regarding ‘The Bush Girl’. A stage melodrama ‘entirely Australian [abounding] in sparkling incidents of bush life’, the play was packed with ‘picturesque scen...
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Spinsters Re-Drawing Rooms in Gaskell’s Cranford
The labels of’ spinster’ and ‘old maid’, in Victorian rhetoric, indicated much more than years and marital status. To fail to marry was to be relegated to an almost-invisible social position, to face the trial...
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Possessing London: The Yellow Book’s Women Writers
While the domestic interior became a site freighted with ideological meaning in the mid-Victorian period, it was not the only location wherein Victorians attempted to reclaim a rigidly-defined social space.1 Lond...
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Conclusion: Woolf, Rhys, and Narratives of Obscurity
We begin in a room. It is full of books and a writing desk and a brown ring on the carpet left by a hot kettle.1 This room in which Virginia Woolf works is nothing like the quarters occupied by her predecessors. ...
