We have several hundred books newly in on the representations of women in literature, art and politics between 1850 and 1930, particularly focused on The New Woman. (Pictured Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists by Jan Marsh and Pamela Gerrish Nunn.)
Subjects include marriage in literature, the Pre-Raphaelites, women's suffrage, sexual ethics, Victorian periodicals, and writers like Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Eliza Lynn Linton, Mona Caird, George Egerton, Margaret Oliphant, etc., as well as the Brontës, Dickens, Oscar Wilde and George Gissing. (Pictured: The Marriage of Minds: Reading Sympathy in the Victorian Marriage Plot by Rachel Ablow)
The key catalogues are:
Nineteenth Century Novelists
Gender studies
Women in the Past
Art and Photography
Decadence, 1890s, Fin de Siècle
(Pictured: Beyond the Frame: Feminism and Visual Culture, Britain 1850-1900 by Deborah Cherry)
(Pictured: The Power of Lies: Transgression in Victorian Fiction by John Kucich)
(Pictured: The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-14 by Lisa Tickner)
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