The thing that struck me first as I read Elizabeth Gaskell’s North And South was how different it was from works by her contemporaries, female Victorian writers such as George Eliot, the Bronte ...

Many Victorian women writers, such as Marian Evans (George Eliot), struggled to be considered simply as writers, with no categorizing modifier, and adopted male pseudonyms or published anonymously as ...

The Famous Women Writers Whose Friendships We’ve Forgotten. 5 minute read. ... George Eliot is remembered for holding her own in the male-dominated intellectual circles of Victorian London, ...

Given the incredible amount of literature on tightlacing, however, some writers, including K.M. Klingerman in her masters thesis Binding Femininity: The Effects of Tightlacing on the Female Pelvis ...

When we think of ghost stories, we often mainly consider male authors. From the classic Victorian-era writers such as MR James, Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker, to the modern masters like Stephen ...

Three short stories by female Victorian writers. Ghost stories are not about the dead – but the fears of the living. Our mistresses of the macabre, female writers from the 19th and early 20th ...

Sara Lodge, who teaches Victorian literature and culture at the University of St. Andrews, points out in “The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective” that these proto-Cagneys and ...

This sent me on a search to learn more about the women ghost story writers of this period. READ MORE Allen Bobinac: ‘For four weeks, I was sleeping in Stephen’s Green, surviving on €1 a day’ ...

Sara Lodge, who teaches Victorian literature and culture at the University of St. Andrews, points out in “The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective” that these proto-Cagneys and ...