Anna Jameson : Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction; ’A silent existence’: women and biography; The riddle of history: unhistorical women; Writing Romeo out: rereading Shakespeare’s women; ’Only a traveller’s tale’: gendered discourse in professional travel writing; Metamorphosed and translated: interpreting the terra incognita; Invading the house of Titian: the colonisation of Italian art; Alien aesthetics and the representation of women; ’Throwing down the partition walls’: feminist dialectics and professional work for women; Locations of the major manuscript collections; Bibliography; Works cited.