Prose by Victorian Women: An Anthology (Hardcover)

Part 1 Mary Russell Mitford; Chapter 1 Our Village; Chapter 2 Rosedale; Chapter 3 Walks in the Country; Part 2 Harriet Martineau; Chapter 4 Prison Discipline; Chapter 5 Letter to the Deaf; Chapter 6 Society in America; Part 3 Lady Elizabeth Eastlake; Chapter 7 Modern Painters; Chapter 8 Photography; Part 4 George Eliot (Marian Evans); Chapter 9 Natural History of German Life; Chapter 10 The Modern Hep! Hep! Hep!; Part 5 Frances Power Cobbe; Chapter 11 What Shall We Do with Our Old Maids?; Chapter 12 The Rights of Man and the Claims of Brutes; Chapter 13 Wife-Torture in England; Chapter 14 Schadenfreude; Part 6 Eliza Lynn Linton; Chapter 15 The Girl of the Period; Chapter 16 George Eliot; Chapter 17 Nearing the Rapids; Part 7 Margaret Oliphant; Chapter 18 The Literature of the Last Fifty Years; Part 8 Isabella Bird Bishop; Chapter 19 Letter XXVI from Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands; Chapter 20 Letter XV from Unbeaten Tracks in Japan; Part 9 Helen Taylor; Chapter 21 Women and Criticism; Chapter 22 The Ladies’ Petition; Part 10 Anne Thackeray Ritchie; Chapter 23 Heroines and Their Grandmothers; Part 11 Alice Brooke Bodington; Chapter 24 The Importance of Race and Its Bearing on the “Negro Question”; Part 12 Edith Jemima Simcox; Chapter 25 Autobiographies; Chapter 26 Women’s Work and Women’s Wages; Chapter 27 The Capacity of Women; Part 13 Clementina Black; Chapter 28 The Coercion of Trade Unions; Chapter 29 What Is a Fair Wage?; Chapter 30 The Dislike to Domestic Service; Part 14 Mona Alison Caird; Chapter 31 The Morality of Marriage; Part 15 Sarah Grand (Frances Elizabeth Clarke McFall); Chapter 32 The New Aspect of the Woman Question; Chapter 33 The New Woman and the Old; Part 16 Vernon Lee (Violet Paget); Chapter 34 Art and Life I., III.; Chapter 35 Gospels of Anarchy;