This ground-breaking anthology brings together a wide selection of women's writings from the Victorian period (excluding fiction and drama), most of which canno

Deliberately excluded from this volume are fiction and drama but the anthology contains poetry, critical essays, diaries, travel literature, political commentar

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Daniel Karlin has selected poetry written and published during the reign of Queen Victoria, (1837-1901). Giving pride of place to Tennyson, Robert Browning, and

An unconventional figure in an age that excluded women from government, Victoria was accorded prominence unavailable to any male monarch. Yet as Adrienne Munich