A Decade of Experiment: George Eliot in the 1860s
The publication of The Mill on the Floss in 1860 consolidated George Eliot’s reputation as a novelist and the 1860s would be a period of sustained experiment for her. Contemporary critics generally maintained that George Eliot’s achievements as a novelist
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Adrienne E. Gavin & Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton
BRITISH WOMEN’S W R I T I N G F RO M B RO N T Ë TO B L O O M S B U R Y, VOLUME 2
1860s and 1870s
British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840–1940 Series Editors Adrienne E. Gavin Department of English and Language Studies Canterbury Christ Church University Canterbury, UK Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton Department of English and Language Studies Canterbury Christ Church University Canterbury, UK
This series, published in association with the International Centre for Victorian Women Writers (ICVWW), consists of five volumes of critical essays written by international experts in women’s writing. Structured chronologically, with each volume examining a twenty year timespan, it explores the dynamic contiguities of literary realism, sensation, and the new as a frame for reassessing, decade by decade, how women’s writing changed and developed in Britain from the 1840s to the 1930s. A transformative period in women’s private, public, and literary lives, the century from 1840 to 1940 saw the rise and fall of the circulating library as an effectual censor of literary expression, the growth and achievements of the female suffrage movement, and a series of legislation that re-envisioned relations within marriage. Female higher education opened and expanded, employment opportunities for women substantially increased, and women’s roles as single women, wives, mothers, and authors were recurrently debated. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/15858
Adrienne E. Gavin Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton Editors
British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 2 1860s and 1870s
Editors Adrienne E. Gavin Department of English and Language Studies Canterbury Christ Church University Canterbury, UK
Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton School of Humanities Canterbury Christ Church University Canterbury, UK
ISSN 2523-7160 ISSN 2523-7179 (electronic) British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840–1940 ISBN 978-3-030-38527-9 ISBN 978-3-030-38528-6 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38528-6 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true
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