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Lady Duff Gordon’s Letters from Egypt
Reproduction of the original: Lady Duff Gordon’s Letters from Egypt by Janet Ross
The Selected Letters of Caroline Norton
As the first nineteenth century woman to successfully campaign for women’s rights legislation, Caroline Norton has been comparatively neglected and under-researched. There is, however, a current and growing interest in her life and work. This is a new three volume collection of the correspondence of Caroline Norton. The collection includes over 750 of her letters and also features an introduction by the editors, contextualising and embedding Caroline’s literary and political achievements within the narrative of her letters.
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing
Since the late twentieth century, there has been a strategic campaign to recover the impact of Victorian women writers in the field of English literature. However, with the increased understanding of the importance of interdisciplinarity in the twenty-first century, there is a need to extend this campaign beyond literary studies in order to recognise the role of women writers across the nineteenth century, a time that was intrinsically interdisciplinary in approach to scholarly writing and public intellectual engagement.
A World History of Railway Cultures, 1830-1930
A World History of Railway Cultures, 1830-1930 is the first collection of primary sources to historicize the cultural impact of railways on a global scale from their inception in Great Britain to the Great Depression. Its dual purpose is to promote understanding of complex historical processes leading to globalization and generate interest in transnational and global comparative research on railways. In four volumes, organized by historical geography, this scholarly collection gathers rare out-of-print published and unpublished materials from archival and digital repositories throughout the world. It adopts a capsule approach that focuses on short selections of significant primary source con...
Queen Bee of Tuscany
"Quite simply one of the best books of the year." —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Ben Downing's Queen Bee of Tuscany brings an extraordinary Victorian back to life. Born into a distinguished intellectual family and raised among luminaries such as Dickens and Thackeray, Janet Ross married at eighteen and went to live in Egypt. There, for the next six years, she wrote for the London Times, hobnobbed with the developer of the Suez Canal, and humiliated pashas in horse races. In 1867 she moved to Florence, Italy where she spent the remaining sixty years of her life writing a series of books and hosting a colorful miscellany of friends and neighbors, from Mark Twain to Bernard Berenson, at ...
Lucie Duff Gordon, in England, South Africa and Egypt
"Lucie Duff Gordon," wrote George Meredith, "was of the order of women of whom a man of many years may say that their like is to be met with but once or twice in a life-time." Lucie had none of the consummate self-confidence of her cousin, Harriet Martineau, or the enthusiasms and industry of Sarah Austin. She had instead a quality -- an attitude to life -- which makes her a member of the twentieth rather than of the nineteenth century. Born in 1821, the year of Napoleon's death, she was brought up in much the same atmosphere of disillusionment and change after a long period of warfare as those born a century later. She was not trammelled by Victorian conventions and disliked all pose and snobbery. She was a passionate defender of all whom she considered to be treated unjustly, and, when she could, gave them practical help; "against the cruelty of despotic rulers and the harshness of society she was openly at war." While Lucie was by no means a product of Victoria-Albert England in which she lived, she was very much influenced by the radical and intellectual atmosphere in which she was brought up. - Introduction.
