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Victorian Women Writers – 09

December 3, 2009 by Roy Johnson

a guide to electronic texts

Authors – D-E

Dixon, Ella Hepworth (1855-1932)

My Flirtations (1893)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/dixon/myflirt.html

One Doubtful Hour (1904)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/dixon/onedoubt.html

The Story of a Modern Woman (1894)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/dixon/storymod.html

 

Eliot, George [Mary Ann Evans] (1819-1880)

Selected Works
HTML at Princeton:
http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/eliot/

Adam Bede
HTML at Princeton:
http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/eliot/bede/
Zipped PDF 3.0 at elecbook.com:
http://www.elecbook.com/adambede.zip
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=507

Brother Jacob
HTML at Princeton:
http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/eliot/jacob/
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2171

Daniel Deronda
HTML with numbered paragraphs in Japan:
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Eliot-Deronda.html

Felix Holt, The Radical
HTML at Princeton:
http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/eliot/holt/
Oxford Text Archive SGML- Text 2218:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

Janet’s Repentance
Oxford Text Archive SGML Text 2137:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

The Legend of Jubal, and Other Poems (1874)
Page images at MOA:
http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idxamp;sid=1amp;c=moa&idno=ABR6584.0001.001&view=toc

The Lifted Veil
HTML at Princeton:
http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/eliot/veil/
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2165
Oxford Text Archive SGML Text 2140:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

Middlemarch
Illustrated HTML at Virginia:
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/cgibin/browse-mixed?id=EliMidd&tag=public&images=images/modeng&data=/lv1/Archive/eng-parsed
Zipped PDF 3.0 at elecbook.com:
http://www.elecbook.com/middmrch.zip
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=145

The Mill on the Floss
HTML with commentary at Bartleby:
http://www.bartleby.com/309/
HTML at Bibliomania:
http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/21/48/
Zipped PDF 3.0 at elecbook.com:
http://www.elecbook.com/milfloss.zip
Oxford Text Archive SGML – Text 2138:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

Mr Gilfil’s Love Story
Oxford Text Archive SGML – Text 2136:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

Romola
HTML at Princeton:
http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/eliot/romola/

The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton
HTML with additional material at Princeton:
http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/eliot/scenes/scenes-1.html
Oxford Text Archive SGML – Text 2135:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

Scenes of Clerical Life
HTML at Princeton:
http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/eliot/scenes/

Silas Marner
HTML at pemberley.com:
http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/silsmarn.html

HTML at Virginia:
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/
public/EliMidd.html

Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=550
Zipped PDF 3.0 at elecbook.com:
http://www.elecbook.com/silasmar.zip
Oxford Text Archive Plain Text – Text 0046:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

The Spanish Gypsy: A Poem (1868)
Page images at MOA:
http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx&sid=1&c=moa&idno=
ADH8207.0001.001&view=toc

 

Ellis, Sarah Stickney (1812-1872)

The Sons of the Soil (1840)
HTML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/ellis/sons.html

The Women of England, Their Social Duties, and Domestic Habits (1839)
HTML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/ellis/womeneng.html

 

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Victorian Women Writers – 10

December 3, 2009 by Roy Johnson

a guide to electronic texts

Authors – F-G

Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-1865)

Christmas Storms and Sunshine
Oxford Text Archive SGML Text 2147:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

Cousin Phillis
HTML in Japan:
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EG-Phillis.html
Gutenberg text (unofficial until 31 Jul 2003):
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4268
Oxford Text Archive SGML – Text 2161:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

Cranford
HTML in Japan:
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EG-Cranford.html
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=394
Oxford Text Archive SGML (by request) – Text 2148:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

Cumberland Sheep Shearers
Oxford Text Archive SGML – Text 2149:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

Curious if True
Oxford Text Archive SGML (by request) – Text 2150:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

A Dark Night’s Work
HTML in Japan:
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EG-Dark.html
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2522

The Doom of the Griffiths
Oxford Text Archive SGML – Text 2151:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

Half a Life-Time Ago
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2547

Half Brothers
Oxford Text Archive SGML – Text 2145:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

Hand and Heart
Oxford Text Archive SGML – Text 2153:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

The Heart of John Middleton
Oxford Text Archive SGML – Text 2158:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

The Life of Charlotte Brontë
HTML in Japan:
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EG-Charlotte-1.html
Gutenberg text, Volume One:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1827
Gutenberg text, Volume Two:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1700
Oxford Text Archive SGML (by request)- Text 2146:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

Lizzie Leigh
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2521
Oxford Text Archive SGML (by request) – Text 2155:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

Lois the Witch
HTML in Japan:
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EG-Lois.html

The Manchester Marriage
Oxford Text Archive SGML – Text 2156:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

Mary Barton
HTML in Japan:
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EG-Barton-1.html
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2153
Oxford Text Archive SGML – Text 2157:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

The Moorland Cottage
HTML in Japan:
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EG-Moorland.html

My French Master
Oxford Text Archive SGML (by request) – Text 2152:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

My Lady Ludlow
HTML in Japan:
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EG-Ludlow-1.html
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2524

North and South
HTML in Japan:
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EG-N&S-1.html
Gutenberg text   (unofficial until 31 Jul 2003):
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/
gutbook/lookup?num=4276

Oxford Text Archive SGML – Text 2157:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

Old Nurse’s Story
The Oxford Text Archive SGML – Text 2160:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

Right at Last
Oxford Text Archive SGML – Text 2162:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

Round the Sofa
Gutenberg text:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/spok/
metabook/roundsofa.html

Ruth
HTML in Japan:
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EG-Ruth-1.html
Gutenberg text   (unofficial until 31 Jul 2003):
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4275

Six Weeks at Heppenheim
Oxford Text Archive SGML (by request) – Text 2154:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

Selected Works
HTML in Japan:
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EG-etexts.html

Sketches among the Poor
Oxford Text Archive SGML – Text 2163:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk
Some passages from Chomley
Oxford text Archive – Text 0061:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk

The Squire’s Story
Oxford Text Archive SGML – Text 2164:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk

Sylvia’s Lovers
HTML in Japan:
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EG-Sylvia-1.html
Gutenberg text   (unofficial until 31 Oct 2003):
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4537
Oxford Text Archive SGML – Text 2144:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk

The Well of Pen-Morfa
Oxford Text Archive SGML (by request):
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk

Wives and Daughters
HTML in Japan:
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EG-W&D.html
Gutenberg text  (unofficial until 31 Jul 2003):
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4274

 

Guiney, Louise Imogen (1861-1920)

TA Roadside Harp: A Book of Verses (1893)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/guiney/roadside.html
Page images at MOA:
http://www.umdl.umich.edu/cgi-bin/moa/html/moa-idx?notisid=ABB0610

 

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Victorian Women Writers – 11

December 6, 2009 by Roy Johnson

a guide to electronic texts

Authors K-M

Keary, Eliza

Little Seal-skin and Other Poems (1874)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/keary/sealskin.html

 

Keary, Maud

Enchanted Tulips and Other Verses for Children (1914)

[includes poems by Annie Keary and Eliza Keary]
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/keary/tulips.html

 

Lee, Vernon [Violet Paget] (1856-1935)

Gospels of Anarchy and Other Contemporary
Studies (1908)

HTML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/lee/gospels.html

Hauntings: Fantastic Stories (1890)
HTML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/lee/hauntings.html

Limbo and Other Essays (1897)
HTML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/lee/limbo.html

Miss Brown, Vol. 1 (1884)
HTML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/lee/missbrown1.html

Miss Brown, Vol. 2 (1884)
HTML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/lee/missbrown2.html

Miss Brown, Vol. 3 (1884)
HTML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/lee/missbrown3.html

Vanitas: Polite Stories (1892)
HTML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/lee/vanitas.html

 

Levy, Amy (1861-1889)

A Ballad of Religion and Marriage (1915?)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/levy/levy-ballad.html

A London Plane-Tree (1889)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/levy/london.html

A Minor Poet and Other Verse (1891)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/levy/minor.html

Xantippe and Other Verse (1881)
SGTML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/levy/xantippe.html

 

Linton, E. Lynn (1822-1898)

The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland, Vol. 1 (1885)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/linton/autokirk1.html

The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland, Vol. 2 (1885)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/linton/autokirk2.html

The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland, Vol. 3 (1885)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/linton/autokirk3.html

The True History of Joshua Davidson (1872)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/linton/joshua.html

 

Malet, Lucas (1852-1931)

The Carissima (1896)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/malet/carissima.html

The History of Sir Richard Calmady (1901)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/malet/calmady.html

 

Martineau, Harriet (1802-1876)

Autobiography, Vol. 1 (1877)
HTML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/martineau/
martineau1.html

The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte
Volume 1: PDF at McMaster:
http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/comte/
Philosophy1.pdf
Volume 2: PDF at McMaster:
http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/comte/
Philosophy2.pdf
Volume 3: PDF at McMaster:
http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/comte/
Philosophy3.pdf

 

Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson (1847-1922)

Ceres’ Runaway and Other Essays
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/
gutbook/lookup?num=1295

The Children
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2012

The Colour of Life
Gutenberg text:

Essays (1914 edition)
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1434

Hearts of Controversy (1917?)
SGML ar VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/meynell/hearts.html
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1243

Lourdes: Yesterday, To-Day, and Tomorrow
Illustrated HTML at Notre Dame:
http://classic.archives.nd.edu/corson/lourdes.htm

The Flower of the Mind (1893; with Later Poems)
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2080

Poems
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1186

The Rhythm of Life and Other Essays
HTML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/meynell/rhythm.html
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1243

The Spirit of Place, and Other Essays
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1309

 

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Victorian Women Writers – 12

December 6, 2009 by Roy Johnson

a guide to electronic texts

Authors N-P

Naden, Constance Caroline Woodhill (1858-1889)

The Complete Poetical Works (1894)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/naden/naden.html

 

Nesbit, Edith (1858-1924)

Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism (1908)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/nesbit/ballsoc.html

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1430

The Enchanted Castle
HTML at lanminds.com:
http://users.lanminds.com/booksetc/eBooks/EnchantedCastle.htm
Gutenberg text (unofficial until 30 Nov 2002):
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=3536

Five Children and It (1902)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/nesbit/fivechil.html
Gutenberg text (unofficial until 31 Aug 2003):
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4378

In Homespun (1896)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/nesbit/homespun.html

The Incomplete Amorist (1906)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/nesbit/incamor.html

Lays and Legends (1886)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/nesbit/laysand.html

Many Voices (1922)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/nesbit/manyvoices.html
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1924

My School-Days
HTML with commentary at Forgotten Futures:
(original magazine serial version)
http://www.ffutures.demon.co.uk/nesbit/nesbit.htm

The Phoenix and the Carpet
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=836

A Pomander of Verse (1895)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/nesbit/pomander.html

The Railway Children (1906)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/nesbit/railway.html
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1874

The Rainbow and the Rose (1905)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/nesbit/rainbow.html
Gutenberg text ( unofficial until 31 Oct 2003):
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4513

The Red House (1902)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/nesbit/redhouse.html
Songs of Love and Empire (1898)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/nesbit/empire.html

The Story of the Amulet (1906)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/nesbit/amulet.html
Gutenberg Text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=837

The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1899)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/nesbit/treasure.html
Gutenberg Text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=770

These Little Ones (1909)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/nesbit/theselit.html

The Wouldbegoods (1901)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/nesbit/wouldbe.html

 

Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)

Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (1860)
HTML at Celebration of Women Writers:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/nightingale/nursing/nursing.html

 

Norton, Caroline (1808-1877)

The Child of the Islands (1846)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/norton/childisl.html

The Dream and Other Poems (1840)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/norton/dream.html

English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century (1854)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/norton/englaw.html
HTML at Celebration of Women Writers:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/norton/elfw/elfw.html

The Lady of La Garaye (1866)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/norton/lagaraye.html

A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth’s Marriage and Divorce Bill (1855)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/norton/letter.html
HTML at Celebration of Women Writers:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/norton/alttq/alttq.html

Letters to the Mob (1848)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/norton/mob.html

A Plain Letter to the Lord Chancellor on the Infant Custody Bill (1839)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/norton/plain.html

Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times (1851)
HTML at Celebration of Women Writers:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/norton/stuart/stuart.html

The Undying One and Other Poems (1830)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/norton/undying.html

A Voice from the Factories (1836)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/norton/voice.html
HTML at Celebration of Women Writers:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/norton/avftf/avftf.html

 

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Filed Under: 19C Literature Tagged With: 19C Literature, Cultural history, eTexts, Literary studies, Victorian Women Writers

Victorian Women Writers – 13

December 6, 2009 by Roy Johnson

a guide to electronic texts

Authors-Q-S

Radford, Dollie (1858-1920)

A Ballad of Victory (1907)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/radford/victory.html

In Summer-Time (1905)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/radford/summer.html

A Light Load (1891)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/radford/lightload.html

Poems (1910)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/radford/radpoems.html

Sea-Thrift: a Fairy Tale (1904)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/radford/seathrift.html

Songs and Other Verses (1895)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/radford/songs.html

The Young Gardeners’ Kalendar (1904)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/radford/kalendar.html

 

Robins, Elizabeth [C.E. Raimond] (1862-1952)

The Mills of the Gods
HTML at Jacksonville State:
http://www.jsu.edu/depart/english/robins/docshort/millsgod.htm

My Little Sister
HTML at Jacksonville State:
http://www.jsu.edu/depart/english/robins/mls/index.htm

The Open Question: A Tale of Two Temperaments
HTML at Jacksonville State:
http://www.jsu.edu/depart/english/robins/openq/index.htm

Votes for Women (1909)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/robins/votes.html

 

Rossetti, Christina Georgina (1830-1894)

Goblin Market
HTML at crocker.com:
http://www.crocker.com/~lwm/goblin.html
HTML at GeoCities:
http://www.geocities.com/~spanoudi/poems/roset01.html

Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book
(based on the 1893 edition)
HTML at Celebration of Women Writers:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/rossetti/singsong/singsong.html

 

Schreiner, Olive Emilie Albertina [Ralph Iron] (1855-1920)

A Closer Union (1909)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/schreiner/closer.html

Dream Life and Real Life (1893)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/schreiner/dreamlife.html

Dreams (1898)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/schreiner/dreams.html

The Political Situation (1896)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/schreiner/politsit.html

Stories, Dreams and Allegories (1923)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/schreiner/schreiner-stories.html

Story of an African Farm, vol. 1 (1883)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/schreiner/storyafr1.html

Story of an African Farm, vol. 2 (1883)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/schreiner/storyafr2.html

Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/schreiner/trooper.html

Undine (1928)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/schreiner/undine.html

Woman and Labour
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1440

 

Skene, Felicia (1821-1899)

The Inheritance of Evil, Or, the Consequence of Marrying a Deceased Wife’s Sister (1849)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/skene/evil.html

Penitentiaries and Reformatories (1865)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/skene/skene-reform.html

Scenes from a Silent World, or Prisons and their Inmates (1889)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/skene/silent.html

The Shadow of the Holy Week (1883)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/skene/shadow.html

A Test of the Truth by “Oxoniensis”(1897)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/skene/test.html

The Tutor’s Ward, Vol. 1 (1851)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/skene/tutor1.html

The Tutor’s Ward, Vol. 2 (1851)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/skene/tutor2.html

 

Steel, Flora Annie (1847-1929)

English Fairy Tales
HTML at Baldwin Project:
http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php3?author=steel&book=english&story=_contents

The Modern Marriage Market (1898)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/corelli/modmarr.html

The Potter’s Thumb, Vol. 1 (1894)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/steel/potter1.html

The Potter’s Thumb, Vol. 2 (1894)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/steel/potter2.html

The Potter’s Thumb, Vol. 3 (1894)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/steel/potter3.html

Tales of the Punjab (1894)
Illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers:
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Victorian Women Writers – 14

December 20, 2009 by Roy Johnson

a guide to electronic texts

Authors – T-W

Taylor, Helen (1831-1907)

The Claim of Englishwomen to the Suffrage Constitutionally Considered (1867)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/taylor/suffrage.html

 

Ward, Mrs Humphrey [Mary Augusta Arnold] (1851-1920)

Daphne, or Marriage a la Mode (1909)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/ward/daphne.html

England’s Effort: Six Letters to an American Friend (1916)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/ward/engeffrt.html
Illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/ward/effort/effort.html

Marcella, Vol. I (1894)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/ward/marcell1.html

Marcella, Vol. II (1894)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/ward/marcell2.html

The Story of Bessie Costrell (1895)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/ward/bessie.html

 

Webster, Augusta (1837-1894)

Blanche Lisle and Other Poems (by “Cecil Home”) (1860)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/webster/blanche.html

A Book of Rhyme (1881)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/webster/bookrime.html

Daffodil and the Croäxaxicans (1884)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/webster/daffodil.html

Dramatic Studies (1866)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/webster/dramatic.html

Lilian Gray: a Poem (by “Cecil Home”) (1864)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/webster/lgray.html

Mother and Daughter: an Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence (1895) (With an introductory note by William M. Rossetti)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/webster/mother.html

Portraits (1870)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/webster/portraits.html

A Woman Sold (1867)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/webster/womansold.html

 

Wilde, Lady Jane (1826-1896)

Poems (by “Speranza”) (1871?)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/wilde/speranza.html

 

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Victorian Women Writers – 15

December 20, 2009 by Roy Johnson

a guide to electronic texts

Authors – X-Z

Yonge, Charlotte Mary (1823-1901)

Abbeychurch: or, Self-Control and Self-Conceit
Gutenberg textnbsp; (unofficial until 31 Jul 2003):
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4267

A Book of Golden Deeds
Illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/yonge/deeds/deeds.html

The Caged Lion
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2573

The Clever Woman of the Family
Gutenberg text (unofficial until 30 Jun 2002):
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=3292

Countess Kate
Gutenberg text  (unofficial until 30 Jun 2002):
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=3259

The Daisy Chain, or, Aspirations
Gutenberg text  (unofficial until 31 Jan 2003):
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=3610

The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=3139

Dynevor Terrace, or, The Clue of Life
Volume I: Gutenberg text   (unofficial until 31 Jul 2003):
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=3139
Volume II: Gutenberg text  (unofficial until 31 Jul 2003):
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4236

Friarswood Post-Office
Gutenberg text (unofficial until 31 Jul 2003):
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4296

Heartsease, or The Brother’s Wife
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2601

The Heir of Redclyffe, Vol. 1 (1853)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/yonge/heirred1.html
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2505

Henrietta’s Wish, or, Domineering: a Tale (1853)
SGML at VWWP:
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/yonge/henrietta.html

Lady Hester: or, Ursula’s Narrative
Gutenberg text  (unofficial until 30 Nov 2003):
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4659

The Lances of Lynwood
Gutenberg text   (unofficial until 31 Aug 2003):
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4364

Life of John Coleridge Patteson, Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands
Gutenberg text  (unofficial until 31 Jan 2004):
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4944

The Little Duke
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=3048

Little Lucy’s Wonderful Globe
Gutenberg text  (unofficial until 31 Oct 2003):
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4538

My Young Alcides: A Faded Photogaph
Gutenberg text (unofficial until 31 Aug 2003):
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4347

Nuttie’s Father
Gutenberg text  (unofficial until 31 May 2003):
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4053

A Parallel History of France and England;
Consisting of Outlines and Dates (1871)

HTML at Celebration of Women Writers:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/yonge/history/history.html

The Pigeon Pie
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2606

The Prince and the Page
Gutenberg text   (unofficial until 31 Jan 2003):
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=3696

Sintram and His Companions
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2824

Scenes and Characters: or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft
Gutenberg text  (unofficial until 31 Jan 2004):
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4944

The Stokesley Secret
Gutenberg text  (unofficial until 30 Sep 2002):
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=3411

The Trial: More Links of The Daisy Chain
Gutenberg text (unofficial until 28 Feb 2003):
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=3744

Two Penniless Princesses
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2942

Undine
Gutenberg text:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2825

Unknown to History: A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland
Gutenberg text  (unofficial until 31 Oct 2003):
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4596

Young Folks’ History of England
Gutenberg text  (unofficial until 31 Dec 2003):
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4769

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Virginia Woolf and Cubism

December 28, 2014 by Roy Johnson

the development of literary and visual modernism

Virginia Woolf and Cubism might seem at first a rather odd conjunction, but in fact her literary experimentation was taking place at exactly the same time as the pioneering movement in modern visual art, and it had very similar objectives. Picasso’s great breakthrough masterpiece Les Demoiselles d’Avignon was painted in 1907, and the development of his cubist works along with those of Georges Braque were created from 1910 onwards into the 1920s. This is the same period during which Woolf established herself as one of the most important figures of literary modernism.

Virginia Woolf and Cubism Picasso said ‘I paint forms as I think of them, not as I see them’ which resulted in objects and sitters portrayed in a fragmented manner, from a number of different perspectives, in a series of overlapping planes – all of which the viewer is invited to recompose mentally to form a three-dimensional image, rendered on a two dimensional surface (though there were also a few cubist sculptures).

Virginia Woolf composed in a similar fashion by analysing her subject and reconstructing it from the fragments by which it was perceived, often overlapping, and in particular from a mixture of time periods which combine the fictional present with the past – often within the same sentence of her narrative.

How fresh, how calm, stiller than this of course, the air was in the early morning; like the flap of a wave; the kiss of a wave; chill and sharp and yet (for a girl of eighteen as she then was) solemn, feeling as she did, standing there at the open window, that something awful was about to happen; looking at the flowers, at the trees with the smoke winding off them and the rooks rising, falling; standing and looking until Peter Walsh said, “Musing among the vegetables?”—was that it?—”I prefer men to cauliflowers”—was that it?

Mrs Dalloway is walking in Westminster and the first world war is over, but her appreciation of the fresh morning in June evokes memories of her youth at Bourton and the man who was in love with her, who failed to marry her, but who she will meet later on in the day.

Woolf like her exact contemporary James Joyce, sought to represent human consciousness not as a linear and well-organised set of reflections on distinct topics, but as a vibrant and kaleidoscopic jumble of thoughts, often having little connection with each other. The artistry of her rendition was to provide the links between them via the selection and arrangement of details – just as the painter chooses the fragments of an object which the viewer reassembles into the object as a whole.

Woolf’s cubism is a shifting narrative viewpoint – flashes of a person’s character as seen by other people, of shifting periods of time, and changing locations and characters, the connections between which are not explicitly revealed. The result is a narrative often described as a mosaic of fragments – which is precisely the effect for which Woolf was striving.

The similarities between a literary technique and its equivalent in painting are not at all accidental. Woolf was surrounded by painters – from her sister Vanessa Bell, to Bell’s lover Duncan Grant, and most importantly the painter and art theorist Roger Fry, whose biographer she became. It was Fry who organised the important exhibition of modern post-Impressionist painters at the New Grafton Galleries in 1910, at which Virginia Woolf famously said that ‘human character changed’.

Virginia Woolf and CubismIn her study of this subject Sarah Latham Phillips offers a detailed reading of Jacob’s Room in the light of these ideas, then of Mrs Dalloway and some of the experimental short stories Woolf produced between 1917 and 1932. She makes a reasonable case for the mould-breaking story ‘Kew Gardens’ (1918) having been influenced by her sister Vanessa’s cubist painting The Conversation (which is reproduced here in full colour).

She also sees similarities between Woolf and cubist painters in their selection of everyday objects from the world around them as the raw materials of their art. For the painters, the newspaper, the glass and wine carafe on a bistro table; for Woolf the hustle and bustle of the London streets, or their exact opposite – the silent ruminations of a woman sitting in an empty room, reflecting upon ‘The Mark on the Wall’.

This pamphlet-sized publication comes from the Bloomsbury Heritage series of essays and monographs published by Cecil Woolf in London. These are scholarly productions which range over neglected or hitherto undiscovered topics in Bloomsbury culture – such as unpublished manuscripts, ceramics, gardens, bookbinding, personal reminiscences, painting, houses, and even anti-Semitism. The publisher Cecil Woolf is the nephew of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, and his publications do the Bloomsbury tradition honour.

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Sarah Latham Phillips, Virginia Woolf as a ‘Cubist Writer’, London: Cecil Woolf, 2012, pp.43, ISBN 978-1-907286-29-2


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Virginia Woolf and the Arts

August 1, 2010 by Roy Johnson

essays in literary, media, and cultural studies

As editor Maggie Humm points out in her introduction to this huge collection of scholarly studies on Virginia Woolf and the Arts, Woolf spent her entire life surrounded by creative people of all kinds. Her father was an internationally renowned writer (on belle lettres and moutaineering), her sister was a painter, and her friend Roger Fry both a critic and an artist. Virginia Woolf visited contemporary exhibitions, travelled to museums abroad, and participated in aesthetic debates via her prolific output of essays and journalism.

Virginia Woolf and the ArtsThe essays are grouped under headings of Aesthetic Theory, Painting, Domestic Arts, Publishing, Broadcasting and Technology, Visual Media, and Performance Arts. At their best they illuminate the fact that Virginia Woolf had original opinions and novel forms of expressing them on a variety of subjects, ranging from human behaviour to painting, urban and domestic life, social history, and the relationship between memory, consciousness, and time.

They cover topics such as Woolf’s depiction of aesthetic creation via painting (To the Lighthouse), Woolf and race [without touching on her anti-Semitism], Woolf and the metropolitan city, and Woolf and realism. Each essay is self-contained, with its own set of endnotes and bibliography of further reading.

At their worst (particularly those dealing with aesthetics and literary theory) they are little more than overblown meditations, dragging apparent meanings out of words (more/Moor/moor) where quite clearly none were intended – like schoolboy puns. They also indulge in settling of scores with other ‘critics’, rather than focusing on authentic literary criticism.

Fortunately, the collection improves as it progresses. The most interesting and effective essays are the least pretentious and the least to do with modern literary criticism in all its silliness. For instance Diane Gillespie on ‘Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, and Painting’ and Benjamin Harvey on Woolf’s visits to art galleries and museums.

Though even amongst the sensible essays there are disappointments. A chapter on ‘Bohemian Lifestyles’ is not much more than a description of Woolf’s relationships with her sister Vanessa, Vita Sackville-West, and Katherine Mansfield. It doesn’t explore any truly radical behaviour – such as Vanessa’s ability to live comfortably alongside her ex-husband and his lover, her own ex-lover and his current (gay) lover, and to conceal from her own daughter the true identity of her father for almost twenty years.

But there are plenty of good chapters – one on ‘Virginia Woolf and Entertaining’, another on Woolf’s sesitivity to gardens, and an especially interesting study of ‘Virginia Woolf as Publisher and Editor’ which spills over quite creatively into the Hogarth Press promotion of Russian Literature.

This leads logically enough into a chapter on ‘Virginia Woolf and Book Design’ which is like a shortened version of John Willis’s full length study Leonard and Viginia Woolf as Publishers: The Hogarth Press 1917-1941. Patrick Collier has a good chapter on Woolf and journalism, which I wish had included consideration of her early reviews for the Manchester Guardian and The Times Literary Supplement in the period 1904-1915.

Pamela Caughie also has an interesting chapter on Virginia Woolf and radio broadcasting that cleverly points out the contradictions in Woolf’s attitude to the BBC – keen to embrace the new technology it offered in the 1920s, but perceptive enough to realise that its early Reithean paternalism was hopelessly middlebrow – a view she shared with her husband Leonard, who put his finger on an attitude which is still prevelent today:

That the BBC should be so reactionary and politically and intellectually dishonest is what one would expect … knowing the kind of people who always get in control of those kind of machines, but what makes them so contemptible is that, even according to their own servants’ hall standards, they habitually choose the tenth rate in everything, from their music hall programmes and social lickspittlers and royal bumsuckers right down their scale to the singers of Schubert songs, the conductors of their classical concerts and the writers of their reviews.

The essays at the latter end of the collection remind us just how au courant Virginia Woolf was with contemporary technology. She took photographs, broadcasted on the radio, and wrote about London’s underground, the telephone, the cinema, and even flying (without having done so). The irony here is that the critics explaining her avant-garde behaviour and interests are themselves locked into a mode that is terminally old-fashioned (the academic essay) almost to the point of being moribund.

This is a huge and very impressive production, but one thing struck me about it – apart from its equally huge cost. Many of the essays take a long time to make a simple point. They circle around the object of enquiry with endless qualifications and even self-refutations, all made in the spirit of ‘interrogating’ their subject. It’s as if we are being offered ‘thinking aloud’ instead of considered arguments and conclusions. Having said that, the audience at which this Woolf-fest is aimed (lecturers and post-graduates) will not want to miss out on a collection that does include studies that link Woolf to many other forms of culture beyond literature alone.

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Maggie Humm (ed), The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010, pp.512, ISBN: 0748635521


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Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Language

July 27, 2010 by Roy Johnson

Woolf as essayist, feminist, and anti-militarist

The Virgina Woolf industry continues at full capacity on both sides of the Atlantic, and this slim monograph Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Language comes to us from the University of Pennsylvania, courtesy of Edinburgh University Press. Using the link between Virginia Woolf and Montaigne as essayists for her springboard, Judith Allen uses it as an excuse to write about contemporary political concerns, ranging from ‘extraordinary rendition’ and ‘collateral damage’, to ‘Abu Ghraib’ and anything else on the spectrum of abuses which have been the subject of lies, propaganda and deception by the press and the political class. One applauds the political sentiments of course, but one often searches in vain for a connection with Virginia Woolf.

Virginia Woolf and the Politics of LanguageHer basic argument is that the essay is an exploration of a topic or an idea, and because it looks at issues from a variety of perspectives, it is the enemy of totalising theories and systems. That seems quite reasonable, and it is true that both Woolf and Montaigne use the essay forms as a means of opening up and exploring ideas, comparing one thing with another, and discovering unexpected links between the past and the present.

The only other coherent argument that emerges is that Virginia Woolf uses images and metaphors of growth, change, flux, and mutability in her work – which Allen assumes are feminine strategies of writing, deliberately designed to challenge a masculine attempt to establish stasis, fixity, and permanence. This too might be a persuasive argument if it were supported by more in the way of evidence.

The problem is that her presentation suffers from some of the common weaknesses of academic writing produced to gain status or tenure – over-reliance on quotations from other fashionable academic writers, raising questions that masquerade as insights, and excessive signposting (‘this chapter wil look at …’). No sooner is a proposition launched than it is called cautiously into question. This is offered as a critical dialectic when it is not much more than a form of thinking aloud. There is also the bizarre practice of signposting the intention to consider a topic which is already under consideration. This represents a failure to control structure for which even an undergraduate essay would be marked down. She is also not averse to self-congratulatory asides:

Although no one has made any direct link between Bakhtin and Montaigne’s writings, Bakhtin’s dissertation on Rabelais, one of Montaigne’s contemporaries, entitled Rabelais and the World, quotes several of Montaigne’s essays, and my examination of their ideas regarding the relationship between reader and writer is quite illuminating

The discussion ranges from one essay to another, from essay to novel, from one critic to another critic’s view of the first and back again. The critics engaged to support her arguments are what might be called the usual suspects – Bakhtin, Deleuze, and Guattari. And the whole production has about it the spirit of a composition with one primary motivating factor – the quest for academic promotion. In terms of its style, nothing could be further from the clarity, simplicity, and authenticity of the writers she is discussing – Woolf and Montaigne.

A whole chapter is devoted to the fact that Woolf often changed the titles of her works, with accompanying large claims made for the significance of this practice – ignoring the fact that many writers do the same thing.

Judith Allen also has a curious habit of referring to the ‘narrators’ of Woolf’s essays, when there is in fact little or no evidence to support the notion of a fictional construct. The essays come to us quite simply as the thoughts and writing of Woolf herself. Her opinions are often offered in a playful, oblique, and metaphoric manner – but that’s her style: there is no constructed intermediary delivering her opinions.

The last parts of the book are largely devoted to a critique of US and UK policy in the war on Iraq. However much one might share her sentiments on this barbaric, illegal, and counter-productive invasion, they tell us nothing about Virginia Woolf except that she was a vehement critic of imperialism and also a pacifist – something I think we already knew.

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Judith Allen, Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Language, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010, pp.133, ISBN: 0748636757


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