This study focuses on the work of four Victorian anti-feminist women writers - Eliza Lynn Linton, Charlotte M. Yonge, Mrs Humphry Ward, and Margaret Oliphant - examining their self-contradictory responses to the debate about women's role in family life and society. Individual chapters review women's anti-feminism from 1792-1850, and fresh readings of their best-known novels emphasize the inconsistencies of their masculine and feminine ideals.

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University of Buckingham, UK

Valerie Sanders

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Book Title: Eve's Renegades
Book Subtitle: Victorian Anti-Feminist Women Novelists
Authors: Valerie Sanders
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24935-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1996
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-66313-4Published: 03 October 1996
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-24935-0Published: 12 February 1997
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 249
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Gender Studies

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