This study focuses on the work of four Victorian anti-feminist women writers - Eliza Lynn Linton, Charlotte M. Yonge, Mrs Humphry Ward, and Margaret Oliphant - examining their self-contradictory responses to the debate about women's role in family life and society. Individual chapters review women's anti-feminism from 1792-1850, and fresh readings of their best-known novels emphasize the inconsistencies of their masculine and feminine ideals.
| ISBN: | 9781349249350 |
| Publication date: | 12th February 1997 |
| Author: | Sanders, Valerie |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Ebook (PDF) |