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.
- ISBN10 0333595637
- ISBN13 9780333595633
- Publish Date July 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 June 1997
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 264
- Language English