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The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature / by Losano, Antonia Jacqueline

Table of Contents: “…Prevailing winds and cross-currents : public discourse and the history of Victorian women painters -- Desire and feminist aesthetics in Anne Brontë's The tenant of Wildfell Hall -- Ekphrasis and the art of courtship in Jane Eyre -- Making a living : Howitt, Eliot, Oliphant -- The afterlife of Angelica Kauffman -- Disfigurement and beauty in Dinah Craik and Charlotte Yonge -- Painting the new woman : Mary Ward and the woman artist.…”
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Educating the Proper Woman Reader : Victorian Family Literary Magazines and the Cultural Health of the Nation / by Phegley, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…The scene of women's reading : mid-nineteenth century culture, professional critics, and family literary magazines -- Piracy and the patriotic woman reader : making British literature American in Harper's new monthly magazine, 1850-1855 -- The education and professionalization of the woman reader : consolidating middleclass power in the Cornhill magazine, 1860-1864 -- (Im)proper reading for women : Belgravia magazine and the defense of the sensation novel, 1866-1871 -- Victoria's secret : the woman's movement from reader to writer/critic, 1863-1868.…”
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Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer / by Kanwit, John Paul M., 1972-

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Feminist Realism at the Fin de Siecle : The Influence of the Late-Victorian Woman's Press on the Development of the Novel / by Youngkin, Molly, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The woman's press at the fin de siecle -- "They are learning to think ... for themselves" : consciousness raised -- "What the girl says" : spoken word as political tool -- Women at work, at war, and on the go : feminist action -- "The realistic method in its best expression" : successful representations of woman's agency and literary reputations -- Engaging and shaping modernism.…”
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Jane Austen among Women / by Kaplan, Deborah, 1950-

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Plots of Opportunity : Representing Conspiracy in Victorian England / by Pionke, Albert D., 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Italian union : red republicanism, The woman in white and Lothair.…”
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The Provocative Joan Robinson : The Making of a Cambridge Economist / by Aslanbeigui, Nahid, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Collage with woman in foreground -- The improbable theoretician -- Excursus: Robinson and Kahn -- The making of the economics of imperfect competition -- Becoming a Keynesian -- Who is Joan Robinson?…”
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Eat My Dust : Early Women Motorists / by Clarsen, Georgine, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Movement in a minor key : dilemmas of the woman motorist -- A war product : the British motoring girl and her garage -- A car made by English ladies for others of their sex : the feminist factory and the lady's car -- Transcontinental travel : the politics of automobile consumption in the United States -- Campaigns on wheels : American automobiles and a suffrage of consumption -- "The woman who does" : a Melbourne women's motor garage -- Driving Australian modernity : conquering Australia by car -- Machines as the measure of women : Cape-to-Cairo by automobile.…”
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Sexualities in Victorian Britain /

Table of Contents: “…Tucker -- Turn-of-the-century male impersonation : rewriting the romance plot / Martha Vicinus -- "I am the woman for spirit" : a working woman's gender transgression in Victorian London / Camilla Townsend.…”
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Economic Women : Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Debating the costs of family life in mid-Victorian England / Erika Rappaport -- "Absolutely Miss Fairlie's own" : emasculating economics in The woman in white / Esther Godfrey -- "She'd give her two ears to know" : the gossip economy in Ellen Wood's St Martin's eve / Tara MacDonald -- Charlotte Riddell : novelist of "the city" / Nancy Henry -- A "formidable" business : British women travelers in the colonial medical market / Narin Hassan -- Afterword-and forward : economic women in their time, our time, and the future / Regenia Gagnier.…”
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