Though working-class women in the nineteenth century included many accomplished and prolific poets, their work has often been neglected by critics and readers i

This volume is the first to identify a significant body of life narratives by working-class women and to demonstrate their inherent literary significance. Placi

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets. Among those discussed directly are:

Behind our contemporary experience of globalization, precarity, and consumerism lies a history of colonization, increasing literacy, transnational trade in good

Over 100 poets of labouring class origin were published in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries. Some were hugely popular and important in their day but few a