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New Amazonia
In June 1889, Mrs Humphry Ward's open letter "An Appeal Against Female Suffrage" was published with over a hundred other female signatories against the extension of Parliamentary suffrage to women. Inflamed by this "most despicable piece of treachery ever perpetrated towards women by women", Corbett wrote and published New Amazonia.In her novel, Corbett envisions a successful suffragette movement eventually giving rise to a breed of highly evolved "Amazonians" who turn Ireland into a utopian society. The book's female narrator wakes up in the year 2472, much like Julian West awakens in the year 2000 in Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward. Corbett's heroine, however, is accompanied by a man of ...
The Adventures of an Ugly Girl
The Adventures of an Ugly Girl (1893) is a novel by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett. While she is mostly remembered today for New Amazonia, a feminist utopian novel which depicts the emergence of an advanced society of women in the not-so-distant future, Corbett was also a pioneering romance and detective novelist. While little is known about Corbett, her surviving novels and stories suggest she was a passionate campaigner for women's suffrage in an era of conservative politics and traditional values. "'Why, what does it matter how your hair is dressed, or what sort of a gown you put on? You may just as well spare your pains, for unfortunately nothing that you can do seems to mitigate your ugline...
When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead
When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead: A Thrilling Detective Story (1894) is a novel by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett. While she is mostly remembered today for New Amazonia, a feminist utopian novel which depicts the emergence of an advanced society of women in the not-so-distant future, Corbett was also a pioneering detective novelist whose heroine Annie Cory is one of the first female sleuths in literary history. While little is known about Corbett, her surviving novels and stories suggest she was a passionate campaigner for women’s suffrage in an era of conservative politics and traditional values. “‘There has been a robbery of a serious and extensive nature, and you are suspected of being th...
New Amazonia
Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett (1846-1930) was an outspoken advocate of women's rights and a prolific writer of witty, readable popular stories and novels about the indignities and injustices women suffered in the late nineteenth century. Many of her stories and serials in newspapers were never reprinted in book form. Her novels include Cassandra (1884), Miss Grundy's Victims(1894), Little Miss Robinson Crusoe (1898), and The Marriage Market(1903), among others.
New Amazonia
"A good deal of cleverness; a supposed future state of Ireland - good-humored satire." -Scotsman "Always original, Mrs. Corbett contrives to attract the reader's attention at once, and it is never allowed to flag until the end of the very clever story." -Newcastle Daily Chronicle "A dream, but a bright and clever one. Mrs. Corbett writes with so much power and sparkle, that she provides an excellent shilling's worth of entertainment." -Glasgow Herald "One of the most remarkable and noteworthy literary productions of the day." -The Two Worlds "Amusing. Mrs. Corbett has a quick eye for the inconsistencies of law and social customs and a clever method of showing them up to others." -Literary Wo...
The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective
A revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account—and how they became a cultural sensation From Wilkie Collins to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the traditional image of the Victorian detective is male. Few people realise that women detectives successfully investigated Victorian Britain, working both with the police and for private agencies, which they sometimes managed themselves. Sara Lodge recovers these forgotten women’s lives. She also reveals the sensational role played by the fantasy female detective in Victorian melodrama and popular fiction, enthralling a public who relished the spectacle of a cross-dressing, fist-swinging heroine who got the better of love rats, burglars, and murderers alike. How did the morally ambiguous work of real women detectives, sometimes paid to betray their fellow women, compare with the exploits of their fictional counterparts, who always save the day? Lodge’s book takes us into the murky underworld of Victorian society on both sides of the Atlantic, revealing the female detective as both an unacknowledged labourer and a feminist icon.
Three Wise Old Women
When they set out on a walk on a windy day, three silly women let their imaginary worries get the better of them.
On the Cutting Edge: The Study of Women in the Biblical World
These essays in honor of Professor Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza come from international feminist scholars indebted to her ground-breaking achievements in the areas of biblical studies, feminist thought and social justice. The contributors represent a wide variety of backgrounds, commitments, methodologies, talents and interests. They are united here by their appreciation for Schussler Fiorenza as a scholar, teacher, mentor, colleague and friend. The spectrum is full of vitality, with important convergences and intersections. It exemplifies what Schussler Fiorenza has called 'critical collaboration': women thinking together and creating together. This Festschrift is unique in that it celebrates the work of women in the field. On the Cutting Edge is indexed in H.W. Wilson's Essay and General Literature Index.
Research Guide to American Literature
Presents American literature from the beginnings to the Revolutionary War, including essays, narratives and more.
