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:

This volume reassesses working-class poetry and poetics in Victorian Britain, using Scotland as a focus and with particular attention to the role of the popular

Beginning with Anna Laetitia Barbauld's petition to William Wilberforce and ending with the myth-making Irish writers of the Celtic revival, this major new anth