Deceit and Self-deception in Daniel Defoe’s Roxana: An Evolutionary Take On A Female Adventurer
by Anna Kirsch In the 1970’s Robert Trivers sought to Apply evolutionary logic to explain basic social relationships such as ‘parent/offspring, male/ female, relative/friend, in- group member/ out-group member ’ […]
Read moreTestament of Youth by Vera Brittain
This post was originally published here That Vera Brittain chose to name her autobiography aTestament, at first seems like an assertion of her intellectual inclinations, particularly in light of the […]
Read moreWyoming Pioneer Esther Hobart Morris
by Jad Adams For the first time in the world, in 1869, a legislature gave women equal rights as citizens. It was in the territory of Wyoming in the western […]
Read moreA Feminist Success Story
by Sara Read Back when the study of early modern women’s writing was in its infancy, four academics near the start of their careers decided to produce an anthology […]
Read moreMary Hays: Wollstonecraft’s Disciple and Unsex’d Female.
by Emma Butcher Mary Hays (1760-1843) secures her place in history as one of the radical disciples of Mary Wollstonecraft. Although acknowledged alongside the likes of Helen Maria Williams, Elizabeth […]
Read moreEdna St. Vincent Millay: Flapper Feminism
by Sarah Parker Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was one of the most famous poets of the twentieth century. From her early success with the long poem ‘Renascence’ (which earned […]
Read moreMadame Sarah Grand and the General Illustrated Magazine
by Jennifer Nicol ‘[W]omen do not care to see life any longer in a glass darkly. Let there be light’. —Sarah Grand, ‘The New Aspect of the Woman Question’ […]
Read moreConstance Naden (1858-1889) – Poet and Philosopher, and New Woman.
by Clare Stainthorp In 1888 Constance Naden was made the first female Associate of the Mason Science College (which became the University of Birmingham in 1900), a title […]
Read moreMary Elizabeth Braddon- the feminist?
By the Secret Victorianist ‘If the Victorians had had airplanes, these are the books they would have read on them’. This is my default response when trying to explain away […]
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