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"The Age of Female Novelists"
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice. London: Printed for T. Egerton, 1817. Riess A933P
Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1847. Riess B869J
Annie Edwards. Archie Lovell. London: Chapman and Hall, 1868. D-12 E26A
George Eliot. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, 1871-72. E-15B E42M
Elizabeth Gaskell. North and South. In Household Words, 1854-55. (vol. 10 displayed) Dickens Per D548H
Mrs. (Catherine) Gore. The Ambassador’s Wife. London; New York: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1863. D-12 G666A * Full Text Available Online
Women Poets
Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte. Poems. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1848. Riess B869P
Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Two Poems. London: Chapman and Hall, 1854. E #12754
Michael Field. Sight and Song. London: E. Matthews and J. Lane, 1892. 822.91 F455S LSC
Christina Rossetti. Goblin Market and Other Poems. London: Macmillan, 1865. E #389
Christina Rossetti. Goblin Market. Illustrated by Laurence Housman. London: Macmillan, 1893. A-24 R829G
Prescription and Tradition
Lady Colin Campbell. Etiquette of Good Society. London: Cassell, 1894. E 12mo #6031
Etiquette for Ladies. London: Frederick Warne, ca. 1874. Miniature #45
E. Lynn Linton. The Girl of the Period. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1883. D-12 L761G
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Writing the Domestic
Mary Hughs. A Mother’s Care Rewarded. London: William Darton, 1824. D-12 H894M
L. T. Meade. Dot and Her Treasures. London: J. F. Shaw, ca. 1880s. E #10263
The Child’s Duty. London: J. Harris, 1828. D-12 C537
Woman’s Life. London: G. Newnes, 1895-1934. E #20592
Participating in the Public
Besant, Annie Wood. The Redistribution of Political Power. London: Freethought Publishing Co., 1895. Pam. Coll. 15756
Besant, Annie Wood. Why I Am a Socialist. London: n.p., 1886. Pam. Coll. 15505
Mrs. (Jane) Marcet. Conversations on Chemistry. Hartford: Cooke, 1833. 540 M314C LSC
Harriet Martineau. Illustrations of Political Economy. London: Charles Fox, 1834. PR4984 .M5 I458 1834 (Perkins)
Poems: An Offering to Lancashire. London: E. Faithfull, Victoria Press, 1863. A-24 P744O
Public Debate: The Pen as a Feminist Tool
Webb, Beatrice. Women and the Factory Acts. London: The Fabian Society, 1896. HX11 .F25 (Perkins; in volume “Fabian Tracts”)
Josephine Butler. Woman’s Work and Woman’s Culture: A Series of Essays. London: Macmillan, 1869. E #20967
Martineau, Harriet. Society in America. London: Saunders and Otley, 1837. E #1746
Helen Taylor. “Women and Criticism.” In Macmillan’s Magazine, 1866. M167 LSC
Women’s Penny Paper. Westminster, London: Women’s Printing Society, 1888-1890. (vol. 2 displayed) E f#416
Women as Professional Writers
Frances Freeling Broderip. “Only a Woman.” From the Frances Freeling Broderip Papers, 1848-1877.
E. Lynn Linton. Letter to Mrs. Thomas Wardle, December 8, 1894. From the Sir Thomas Wardle Papers.
Jane Roberts. Diary, 1833-39. 6th 16:B
Women and the Wider World: Travel Writing and Diaries
Frances M. Harvey. Journal of a tour up the Nile, Feb. 17-Mar. 10 1892. 2nd 64:B (Sm. Brit. Vols, Box 6)
North India diary, by an unknown Englishwoman, 1861 May 1-1865 Mar. 29. Sec. A
Dorothea Jane Stephen. Diary, April 1-August 17 1887. 2nd 78:K
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