This book was first published in 1999. This collection of essays by leading scholars from Britain, the USA and Canada opens up the limited landscape of Victoria

Typical of the genre of literature which presented short biographies of women to demonstrate their accomplishments, this book sketches the lives of twenty promi

Innovative and comprehensive coverage of women writers' careers and literary achievements spanning many literary genres during the Victorian period.

Since the late twentieth century, there has been a strategic campaign to recover the impact of Victorian women writers in the field of English literature. Howev