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This five-volume series, British Women’s Writing From Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940, historically contextualizes and traces developments in women’s fiction from 1840 to 1940. Critically assessing both canonical and lesser-known British women’s writing decade by decade, it redefines the landscape of women’s authorship across a century of dynamic social and cultural change. With each of its volumes devoted to two decades, the series is wide in scope but historically sharply defined. Volume 1: 1840s and 1850s inaugurates the series by historically and culturally contextualizing Victorian women’s writing distinctly within the 1840s and 1850s. Using a range of critical perspectives including political and literary history, feminist approaches, disability studies, and the history of reading, the volume’s 16 original essays consider such developments as the construction of a post-Romantic tradition, the politicization of the domestic sphere, and the development of crime and sensation writing. Centrally, it reassesses key mid-nineteenth-century female authors in the context in which they first published while also recovering neglected women writers who helped to shape the literary landscape of the 1840s and 1850s.

Poetry --- Fiction --- English literature --- Literature --- fantasy --- literatuur --- vrouwen --- poëzie --- Engelse literatuur --- Craik, Dinah Maria --- Gaskell, Elizabeth --- Wedgwood, Frances Julia --- Howitt, Anna Mary --- Crowe, Catherine --- Johnstone, Christian --- Clive, Caroline --- Yonge, Charlotte Mary --- Brontë, Anne --- Martineau, Harriet --- Austen, Jane --- Brontë, Charlotte --- Brontë, Emily --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999 --- Great Britain --- Ireland