Victorian poetry was read and enjoyed by a much larger audience than is sometimes
thought. Publication in widely-circulating periodicals, reprinting in book reviews, and …

In recent cultural studies, poetry has become something of a neglected genre. Warwick Slinn
seeks to reverse that trend and argues that a fundamental continuity between the meaning …

There has been a huge revival of interest in Victorian women's poetry in the last ten years,
and it has led to a major reconfiguration of the English poetic landscape of the nineteenth …

Volume 8: Florence Nightingale on Women, Medicine, Midwifery and Prostitution makes
available a great range of Florence Nightingale's work on women: her pioneering study of …

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh Lady Waldemar tells Aurora that Romney,
Aurora's cousin, has" Ignored the Aspasia we all dare to praise,/[in order to aid] other …

This chapter discusses legislation of social change; women, reform, and sexuality; reform
and religion, Victorian science; education, imperialism, and culture in 1870. According to …

Patricia Rigg By the 1870s, when Augusta Webster had published two volumes of dramatic
poetry, Robert Browning had developed the dramatic monologue to a standard against …

MELISSA VALISKA GREGORY many respects, the recovery of Augusta Webster may be
read as a feminist success story with a now familiar plot. Literary scholars of the early-to mid …

Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book, central as it is to the Victorian poetic canon,
presents an ideal means of ad-dressing the significance of gender in both Victorian poetry …

Notwithstanding the critical consensus to agree to disagree on the defini tion of the dramatic
monologue, the question of the auditor's function in the genre seems more central to our …