This book provides a critical reconsideration of nineteenth-century women's writing by exploring the significance of antifeminist representations for literary developments in the century's second half.
The beginnings of the modern idea of feminism are usually traced to the publication of Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women in 1792. Since then, women's emancipation has...
This book was previously published as a special issue of Women's Writing.
Anti-Feminism in the Victorian Novel
London: Smith, Elder, 3 vols, 1888; repr. World's Classics, Oxford, 1987. The History of David Grieve. London: Smith, Elder, 3 vols, 1892. Marcella. London: Smith, Elder, 3 vols, 1894; repr. Virago, 1984. Sir George Tressady.
Amie Hale's The Management of Children ( 1880 ) is unusual in suggesting that toddling marks a point of transition . Hale claims that a ' child commences his education as soon as he begins to toddle . ” This is a rare occurrence in a ...
The Revolt of Man
Victorian and Edwardian Anti- Feminism
This book was first published in 1999.
In 1837, when Queen Victoria came to the throne, no institution of higher education in Britain was open to women. By the end of the century, a quiet revolution had...