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Black woman reformer : Ida B. Wells, lynching, and transatlantic activism / by Silkey, Sarah L.

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A vindication of the rights of woman by Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797

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A Victorian woman's place public culture in the nineteenth century / by Morgan, Simon, 1974-

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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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Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer / by Kanwit, John Paul M., 1972-

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The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer : Romance and Reform in Victorian England / by Galchinsky, Michael

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Bicycles, bangs, and bloomers : the new woman in the popular press / by Marks, Patricia, 1943-

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Allegories of empire the figure of woman in the colonial text / by Sharpe, Jenny

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Veiled Threats : Representing the Muslim Woman in Public Policy Discourses / by Rashid, Naaz

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Crafting the woman professional in the long nineteenth century artistry and industry in Britain /

Table of Contents: “…: women drawing on wood and the careers of Florence and Adelaide Claxton / Catherine Flood -- The China painter : amateur celebrities and professional status at Howell and James "Royal Academy of China painting" / Anne Anderson -- Creative industry : design, art education and the woman professional / Patricia Zakreski -- Dorothy's career and other cautionary tales / Pamela Gerrish Nunn -- The craft of self-fashioning -- Negotiating fame : mid-Victorian women writers and the romantic myth of the gentlemanly reviewer / Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi -- Towards an iconography of ouida as a woman artist / Andrew King -- "Mady's tightrope walk" : the career of Marian Huxley Collier / Valerie Sanders -- Living art : Michael Field, aestheticism and dress / Ana Parejo Vadillo.…”
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The "improper" feminine the women's sensation novel and the new woman writing / by Pykett, Lyn

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Framed : The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siecle / by Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Private and public eyes : Sherlock Holmes and the invisible woman -- Beautiful for ever! cosmetics, consumerism, L.T. …”
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Germaine de Staël, George Sand, and the Victorian woman artist by Lewis, Linda M., 1942-

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The life of Margaret Alice Murray a woman's work in archaeology / by Sheppard, Kathleen L., 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Margaret Murray's India, 1863-1894 -- University College, 1894-1902 -- In the field, 1902-1904 -- The classroom at UCL, 1904-1935 -- Suffrage and the new woman, 1904-1928 -- The classroom-at-large, 1904-1935 -- The witch-cult hypothesis and other adventures on the lunatic fringe, 1911-1935 -- Malta, Minorca, and other archaeology, 1914-1939 -- "Retirement," 1935-1963.…”
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Framed the new woman criminal in British culture at the Fin de Siècle / by Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Private and public eyes : Sherlock Holmes and the invisible woman -- Beautiful for ever! cosmetics, consumerism, L.T. …”
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Framed The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siecle / by Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Private and public eyes : Sherlock Holmes and the invisible woman -- Beautiful for ever! cosmetics, consumerism, L.T. …”
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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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The madwoman in the attic the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination / by Gilbert, Sandra M.

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