Women as Public Moralists in Britain: From the Bluestockings to Virginia Woolf

by Benjamin Dabby

In nineteenth-century Britain, public debates about the nation's moral health and about men's and women's responsibility for it were shaped decisively by a tradition of female moralists. This book looks at the cultural criticism of eight of the most significant of these writers: Anna Jameson, Hannah Lawrance, Margaret Oliphant, Marian Evans ("George Eliot"), Eliza Lynn Linton, Beatrice Hastings, Rebecca West and Virginia Woolf, providing a detailed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0861933435
• ISBN13: 9780861933433
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Royal Historical Society
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"