Sue Brown

Julia Wedgwood, The Unexpected Victorian (eBook, ePUB)

The Life and Writing of a Remarkable Female Intellectual

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Though Julia Wedgwood is still remembered as a commentator on the work of her uncle, Charles Darwin, and for her brief but intense friendship with Browning, her contemporary standing as a writer ("the thoughtful woman par excellence") has been obscured as has her role in the pioneering days of women's higher education and the first campaigns for female suffrage. Based on her extensive correspondence and unusually wide-ranging work, this biography unites the private person and the public writer. It also looks at her many relationships with leading Victorian cultural figures including not only Darwin and Browning but George Eliot, Mrs Gaskell, Harriet Martineau, Frances Power Cobbe, F. D. Maurice, Richard Hutton, Arthur Munby and the young E. M. Forster. It considers the challenges facing a single, deaf Victorian woman in establishing her own independent, but unconventional, life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839984129
• Artikelnr.: 63419538

Autorenporträt

Sue Brown is an independent scholar based in London. She has published Joseph Severn: A Life. The Rewards of Friendship (2009), Small Island, Great Riches: the Life of Paul Asciak: Tenor and Teacher from Malta (2010) and many articles on Severn, Browning, Julia Wedgwood and Gladstone.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Introduction: 'The Formidable Snowie'
Part I The Education of Julia Wedgwood Chapter One A Brilliant Child
Chapter Two Mentors, Friends and Pioneers
Chapter Three Waiting
Chapter Four The Young Novelist
Part II Great Men and Female Friends Chapter Five The Promise of Darwinism
Chapter Six 'The Era of My Life'
Chapter Seven A Woman's World
Chapter Eight The Responsibilities of the Poet
Part III Becoming a Woman of Letters Chapter Nine Finding a Voice
Chapter Ten A Forgotten Feminist
Chapter Eleven Doubt and the Fallibility of Idols
Chapter Twelve Domestic Contentment
Chapter Thirteen Coming to Terms with Darwin and His Legacy
Part IV The 'Thoughtful Woman Par Excellence' Chapter Fourteen The Message of Julia Wedgwood
Chapter Fifteen 'The Old Order Changeth'
Chapter Sixteen 'A Satisfi ed Guest'
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index