1st Edition
The Women Aesthetes vol 2 British Writers, 1870–1900
374 Pages
by
Routledge
The aesthetic movement dominated the closing decades of the nineteenth century. It was significant for the role women played in it at a time when there were growing opportunities for them, both artistically and professionally. The material in this collection provides a representative selection of essays, fiction, poetry and drama by female authors.
Volume 2 1880s and 1890s Acknowledgements Lucy Crane, Art and the Formation of Taste, Six Lectures by Lucy Crane (1882), excerpt Lucas Malet [Mary St Leger Harrison née Kingsley] Mrs Lorimer (A Sketch in Black and White) (1882), excerpts The Wages of Sin: A Novel (1891; rpt 1893), excerpts Amy Levy, A Minor Poet and Other Verse (1884) Janey Sevilla Campbell [Lady Archibald Campbell née Callendar], Rainbow Music or The Philosophy of Harmony in Colour Grouping (1886) Mabel Wotton, A Pretty Radical and Other Stories (1890), ‘A Pretty Radical’, ‘Told in the FireLight’, ‘A Girl’s Hero’, ‘Told in the Studio’ Michael Field [Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper] A Question of Memory (1893), excerpts ‘Equal Love’, Pageant (1896) Florence Farr [Florence Emery], The Dancing Faun (1894) Una Taylor, Nets for the Wind (1896), ‘Nets for the Wind’, ‘Black Snow’, ‘Seed of the Sun’, ‘The Truce of God’ Editorial Notes List of Sources
Biography
Jane Spirit, Sue Asbee, Mary Joannou, Claire Nicholson
