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Prof. Dr. Stefanie Lethbridge

Victorian Women Writers – Select Bibliography

Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question (General)

Auerbach, Nina. Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth. Harvard UP, 1982.
Boardman, Kay (ed.). Popular Victorian Women Writers. Manchester UP, 2004.
Easley, Alexis. First Person Anonymous: Women Writers and Victorian Print Media. Ashgate, 2004.
Fiske, Shanyn. Heretical Hellenism: Women Writers, Ancient Greece, and the Victorian Popular Imagination.
Ohio UP, 2008.
Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic. Yale UP, 1979.
Heilmann, Ann, and Valerie Sanders. “The Rebel, the Lady and the ‘Anti’: Femininity, Anti-
Feminism, and the Victorian Woman Writer”. Women’s Studies International Forum 29.3 (2006):
289–300. DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2006.04.008.
Hughes, Linda K. (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women’s Poetry. CUP, 2019.
Hurst, Isobel. Victorian Women Writers and the Classics: The Feminine of Homer. OUP, 2006.
Langland, Elizabeth. Telling Tales: Gender and Narrative Form in Victorian Literature and Culture. Ohio
State UP, 2002. [Essays on Brontë, Braddon]
Losano, Antonia. The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature. Ohio State UP, 2008.
Luczynska-Holdys, Malgorzata. Soft-Shed Kisses: Re-visioning the Femme Fatale in English Poetry of the
19thCentury. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
Lysack, Krista. Come Buy, Come Buy: Shopping and the Culture of Consumption in Victorian Women’s Writing.
Ohio UP, 2008. [Chapters on Braddon, Eliot]
McAleavy, Maia. The Bigamy Plot: Sensation and Convention in the Victorian Novel. CUP, 2015.
Mullin, Katherine. Working Girls: Fiction, Sexuality, and Modernity. OUP, 2016.
Peterson, Linda H. (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women’s Writing. CUP, 2015.
Scholl, Lesa and Emily Morris (eds.). The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing. Palgrave
Macmillan, 2022.
Shattock, Joanne. “Women’s Work: Victorian Women Writers and the Press”. Gaskell Journal 14
(2000): 59–72.
Steere, Elizabeth. The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction: “Kitchen Literature”. Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
Thompson, Diane (ed.). Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question. CUP, 1999.

Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre

Addison, Catherine. “Burning Down the House in Jane Eyre, Aurora Leigh, and Denzil
Place”. Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 19.1 (2023).
Ahmetspahić, Adisa, and Rumejsa Ribo. “Jane Eyre as a Byronic Hero(Ine)”. Journal of Education and
Humanities 1.1 (2018): 21–29.
Banner, Jessica. “Styling the Self: Exploring Identity Formation through Clothing in Charlotte
Brontë’s Jane Eyre”. Wilkie Collins Journal 17, 2020.
Beaty, Jerome. Misreading Jane Eyre: A Postformalist Paradigm. Ohio State UP, 1996.
Bennett, Ashly. “Shameful Signification: Narrative and Feeling in Jane Eyre”. Critical Insights: Jane
Eyre (2014): 64–98.
Bolt, David et al. (eds.). The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability. Ohio State UP,
2012.
Borsch, Christine. “Männlichkeitskonstruktionen und ‚Female Masculinity‘ in Charlotte Brontes
Roman Jane Eyre”. GenderGraduateProjects III – Grenzen, Grenzgänge, Transgressionen. Ed.
Gudrun Loster-Schneider et al. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2018, 239-264.
Burton, Antoinette, and Isabel Hofmeyr. Ten Books that Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial
Commons. Duke UP, 2014.
Fiehn, Charlotte. “The Two Janes: Jane Eyre and the Narrative Problem in Chapter 23”. Brontë
Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society 41.4 (2016): 312–21. DOI:
10.1080/14748932.2016.1222698.
Gezari, Janet. “Jane Eyre’s Style”. On Style in Victorian Fiction. Ed. Daniel Tyler. CUP, 2022, 130–
49. DOI: 10.1017/9781108614931.008.
Hiskes, Andries. “Prosthetic Performatives: Reading Disability’s Discomfort through Emotives and
Affect Patterns in Jane Eyre”. Textual Practice 35.12 (2021): 1941–56. DOI:
10.1080/0950236X.2020.1786717.
Kaplan, Cora. “Heroines, Hysteria and History: Jane Eyre and her Critics”. Victoriana – Histories,
Fictions, Criticism. Edinburg UP, 15-36.
Li, Meng. “Re-Mapping Jane Eyre: Childhood Trauma, Colonial Fear, and the Narrative of Self-
Development”. Bronte Studies 48.3 (2023): 231–49. DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2023.2213274.
Miller, Robyn. “‘Resolute, Wild, Free’: Women’s Leisure and Avian Ecologies in Jane
Eyre”. Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 15.2 (2019).
Morse, Deborah Denenholz. “Brontë Violations: Liminality, Transgression, and Lesbian Erotics in
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre”. Literature Compass 14.12 (2017). DOI: 10.1111/lic3.12427.
Nandrea, Lorri G. “Desiring Difference: Sympathy and Sensibility in Jane Eyre”. Novel: A Forum on
Fiction 37.1/2 (2003): 112–34. DOI: 10.1215/ddnov.037010112.
Rüggemeier, Anne. “Female Mental Illness, Monstrosity, and Male Medical Discourses: Revisiting
Jane Eyre”. Anglistik 30.3 (2019): 73–88.
Sadaka, George, and Vicky Panossian. “Policing Victorian Women’s Desire: Retracing Mirrored
Patriarchy in Jane Eyre and Villette”. Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society 47.2 (2022):
128–40. DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2022.2043675.
Tytler, Graeme. “Physiognomy and the Treatment of Beauty in Jane Eyre”. Brontë Studies: The Journal
of the Brontë Society 41.4 (2016): 300–11. DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2016.1222703.

Elizabeth Gaskell. North and South

Alexander, Laura. “Private Selves and Public Conflicts: Mastery and Gender Identity in Elizabeth
Gaskell’s North and South”. Gender Forum: An Internet Journal of Gender Studies 51 (2015): 3–17.
Boerckel, Catharina. Ideal und Realität: Weibliche Entwicklungsprozesse bei Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell
und George Eliot. Lang, 1997.
Clausson, Nils. “Romancing Manchester: Class, Gender, and the Conflicting Genres of Elizabeth
Gaskell’s North and South”. Gaskell Journal 21 (2007): 1–20.
Cronin, Meoghan. “Love, Labor, and Loss: An Interdisciplinary View of Work and Nostalgia in
Gaskell’s North and South”. Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and
Learning 1.1 (2012): 19–28.
Dredge, Sarah. “Negotiating ‘A Woman’s Work’: Philanthropy to Social Science in Gaskell’s North
and South”. Victorian Literature and Culture 40.1 (2012): 83–97. DOI:
10.1017/S1060150311000258.
Hayes, Laura. “The Body Plot: Self-Mastery and the Counter Narrative of Gaskell’s North and
South”. Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 18.1 (2018): 95–112.
Harman, Barbara Leah. “In Promiscuous Company: Female Public Appearance in Elizabeth
Gaskell’s North and South”. Victorian Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Social, Political, and
Cultural Studies 31.3 (1988): 351–74.
Janssen, Flore. “‘Common Rules of Street Politeness’? The Clash of Gender and Social Class in
Representations of Street Harassment by Elizabeth Gaskell and Eliza Lynn
Linton”. Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 12.3 (2016).
Jung, Sandro (ed.). Elizabeth Gaskell, Victorian Culture, and the Art of Fiction: Original Essays for the
Bicentenary. Academia P, 2010.
Kanwit, John Paul. “‘Mere Outward Appearances’? Household Taste and Social Preception in
Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South”. Victorian Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian
Studies 35.1 (2009): 190–210.
Parkins, Wendy. “Women, Mobility and Modernity in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South”. Women’s
Studies International Forum 27.5/6 (2004): 507–19. DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2004.09.006.
Reeder, Jessie. “Broken Bodies, Permeable Subjects: Rethinking Victorian Women’s ‘Agency’ in
Gaskell’s North and South”. Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 9.3 (2013).
Schroeder, Janice. “‘A Thousand Petty Troubles’: Margaret Hale’s Emotional Labour in North and
South”. Women’s Writing 27.4 (2020): 461–72. DOI: 10.1080/09699082.2020.1775773.
Steele, Kathleen R. “‘To Give Way’: Women and Grief in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and
South”. Gaskell Journal 31 (2017): 21–36.

Mary E. Braddon. Lady Audley’s Secret

Auger, Emily E. “Male Gothic Detection and the Pre-Raphaelite Woman in Lady Audley’s
Secret”. Clues: A Journal of Detection 26.3 (2008): 3–14. DOI: 10.3172/CLU.26.3.3.
Badowska, Eva. “On the Track of Things: Sensation and Modernity in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s
Lady Audley’s Secret”. Victorian Literature and Culture 37.1 (2009): 157–75. DOI:
10.1017/S106015030909010X.
Bauer, Gero. Houses, Secrets, and the Closet: Locating Masculinities from the Gothic Novel to Henry James.
Transcript, 2016. [A chapter on Braddon]
Donnelly, Brian. “Sensational Bodies: Lady Audley and the Pre-Raphaelite Portrait”. Victorian
Newsletter 112 (2007): 69–90.
Eastlake, Laura. “Playing Cute: Sensation Villainy and the Aesthetics of Small Things in The Woman
in White and Lady Audley’s Secret”. Journal of Victorian Culture 26.4 (2021): 568–81. DOI:
10.1093/jvcult/vcab042.
Ennis, Emily. “The Construction of Women from a Gendered Perspective: Pre-Cinematic Victorian
Representations and the Male Scopophilic Gaze”. MP: An Online Feminist Journal 3.5 (2012):
82–97.
Hansson, Heidi, and Cathrine Norberg. “Lady Audley’s Secret, Gender and the Representation of
Emotions”. Women’s Writing 20.4 (2013): 441–57. DOI: 10.1080/09699082.2013.823307.
Heinrichs, Rachel. “Critical Masculinities in Lady Audley’s Secret”. Victorian Review: An Interdisciplinary
Journal of Victorian Studies 33.1 (2007): 103–20.
Kungl, Carla T. “‘The Secret of My Mother’s Madness’: Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Gothic
Instability”. Demons of the Body and Mind: Essays on Disability in Gothic Literature. Ed. Ruth
Bienstock Anolik. McFarland & Company Publishing, 2010, 170–80.
Langland, Elizabeth. “Enclosure Acts: Framing Women’s Bodies in Braddon’s Lady Audley’s
Secret”. Beyond Sensation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context. Ed Marlene Tromp et al. State U of
New York P, 2000, 3–16.
Matus, Jill L. “Disclosure as ‘Cover-up’: The Disclosure of Madness in Lady Audley’s Secret”. University
of Toronto Quarterly 62.3 (1993): 334–55. DOI: 10.3138/utq.62.3.334.
Morris, Megan L. “Chivalric Terrors: The Gendered Perils of Medievalism in M. E. Braddon’s Lady
Audley’s Secret”. Defining Neomedievalism(s) II. Ed. Karl Fugelso. D. S. Brewer, 2011, 61–78.
Nemesvari, Richard. “Robert Audley’s Secret: Male Homosocial Desire and ‘Going Straight’ in Lady
Audley’s Secret”. Straight with a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality. Ed. Calvin
Thomas. U of Illinois P, 2000, 109–21.
Osborne, Katherine Dunagan. “His and Hers: Gendered Ownership and Marriage in Dombey and
Son and Lady Audley’s Secret”. Victorian Literature and Culture 45.2 (2017): 361–79. DOI:
10.1017/S1060150316000656.
Recchio, Thomas. “Sexuality and Gender in Victorian Sensation and Other Fiction”. Critical Insights:
Gender, Sex & Sexuality (2014): 153–66.
Royal, Anna. “Wax Dolls: Shaping a New Identity in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s
Secret”. Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 9.3 (2013).
Tilley, Elizabeth. “Gender and Role-Playing in Lady Audley’s Secret”. Exhibited by Candlelight: Sources
and Developments in the Gothic Tradition. Ed. Valeria Tinkler-Villani et al. Brill Academic
Publishers; Editions Rodopi B.V., 1995, 197–204.
Tomaiuolo, Saverio. In Lady Audely’s Shadow: Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Victorian Literary Genres.
Edinburgh UP, 2010.
Tromp, Marlene, and Pamela K. Gilbert (eds.). Beyond Sensation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context.
Albany. State U of New York P, 2000.
Voskuil, Lynn M. “Acts of Madness: Lady Audley and the Meanings of Victorian
Femininity”. Feminist Studies 27.3 (2001): 611–39. DOI: 10.2307/3178808.

George Eliot. Middlemarch

Billington, Josie. Eliot’s Middlemarch: Readers’ Guide. Continuum, 2008.
Chase, Karen (ed.). Middlemarch in the Twenty-First Century. Oxford UP, 2006.
Federico, Annette. “Dorothea’s Boudoir: Dream-Work and Ethical Perception in
Middlemarch”. Texas Studies in Literature & Language 56.4 (2014): 400–27. DOI:
doi.org/10.7560/TSLL56403.
Frost, Simon R. The Business of the Novel: Economics, Aesthetics and the Case of Middlemarch. Routledge,
2012.
Galvan, Jill. “Marital Realism: Beauty and Pettiness in Middlemarch”. Novel: A Forum on Fiction 54.2
(2021): 189–209. DOI: 10.1215/00295132-9004459.
Gutowska, Anna. “Between ‘Silly Novels’ and Vegetation Myths: George Eliot’s Subversive Use of
the Two Suitors Convention in Middlemarch”. The George Eliot Review 47 (2016): 36–43.
Hoffer, Lauren N. “‘A Beginning as Well as an Ending’: The Narrative Power of Death and
Remarriage in Middlemarch”. Studies in the Novel 54.1 (2022): 45–64.
Johnston, Judith. “Middlemarch’s Dorothea Brooke and Medieval Hagiography”. The George Eliot
Review 23 (1992): 40–45.
Jones, Marcus K. “Forming Reality through Perception and Imagination in Middlemarch”. The
Victorian 3.1 (2015): 1–13.
Leng, Andrew. “Dorothea Brooke’s ‘Awakening Consciousness’ and the Pre-Raphaelite Aesthetic in
Middlemarch”. AUMLA: Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association
75 (1991): 52–64.
McKean, Lauren. “The Ethical Treatment of Rosamond and Dorothea in George Eliot’s
Middlemarch”. The Explicator 74.2 (2016): 104–06.
Mills, Victoria. “The Museum as ‘Dream Space’: Psychology and Aesthetic Response in George
Eliot’s Middlemarch”. 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 12 (2011).
Mitchell, Rebecca N. “The Rosamond Plots: Alterity and the Unknown in Jane Eyre and
Middlemarch”. Nineteenth-Century Literature 66.3 (2011): 307–27.
Morrison, Kevin A. “Cultural Embeddedness, Gendered Exclusions: The Symbolic Landscapes of
Middlemarch”. Victorians Institute Journal: Victorians Institute Journal 39 (2011): 317–35.
Palmer, Alan. “Large Intermental Units in Middlemarch”. Postclassical Narratology. Approaches and
Analysis. Ed. Jan Alber and Monika Fludernik. The Ohio State UP, 2010, 83-104.
Palmer, Alan. Social Minds in the Novel. Ohio State UP, 2010.
Ruback, Timothy J. “‘Let Me Tell the Story Straight On’: Middlemarch, Process-Tracing Methods and
the Politics of Narrative”. British Journal of Politics & International Relations 12.4 (2010): 477–
97. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-856X.2010.00425.x.
Sopcak, Paul, et al. “The Effects of Free Indirect Style in George Eliot’s Middlemarch: A Reader
Response Study”. Anglistik 31.1 (2020): 15–29.
Tomlinson, Nora. “Middlemarch: The Social and Historical Context”. The Nineteenth-Century Novel:
Realisms. Ed. Delia da Sousa Correa et al. Routledge; Open University Press, 2000, 229–56.
Uehara, Miyuki. “Woman’s Body in Middlemarch: A Feminist Reading”. Southern Review: Studies in
Foreign Language & Literature 9 (1994): 35–46.
Weber, Cara. “‘The Continuity of Married Companionship’: Marriage, Sympathy, and the Self in
Middlemarch”. Nineteenth-Century Literature 66.4 (2012): 494–530.
Wilt, Judith. Women Writers and the Hero of Romance. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Felicia Hemans
Grammatikos, Alex. “‘The Nothingness of Fame, At Least to Woman’: Felicia Hemans and the
Price of Celebrity”. Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 10.3 (2014).
Adams, Theresa. “Picturing Sympathy: Felicia Hemans’s Portraits and Portrait Poems”. Women’s
Writing 30.2 (2023): 127–46. DOI: 10.1080/09699082.2022.2152541.
Comet, Noah. Romantic Hellenism and Women Writers. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. DOI :
10.1057/9781137316226.
Comet, Noah. “Felicia Hemans and the ‘Exquisite Remains’ of Modern Greece.” Keats-Shelley Journal
58 (2009): 96–113.
Easley, Alexis. “Felicia Hemans and the Birth of the Mass-Market Woman Poet”. New Media and the
Rise of the Popular Woman Writer, 1832-1860. Ed. Alexis Easley. Edinburgh UP (2021): 25–50.
Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning. “Felicia Heman’s ‘Modern Greece’ and the ‘Ode to Psyche’”. Keats-
Shelley Review 23 (2009): 51–52. DOI: 10.1179/ksr.2009.23.1.51.
Elliott, Brian P. “‘Nothing Beside Remains’: Empty Icons and Elegiac Ekphrasis in Felicia
Hemans”. Studies in Romanticism 51.1 (2012): 25–40.
Keach, William. “The Ruins of Empire and the Contradictions of Restoration: Barbauld, Byron,
Hemans”. Romanticism and Disaster. Ed. Jacques Khalip and David Collings. University of
Colorado, Boulder, 2012.
Kim, Joey S. “‘One Deep Heart Wrung!’: Felicia Hemans’s Affective Poetics in ‘The Indian City’ and
‘Woman on the Field of Battle’”. Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 18.1 (2022).
Knowles, Claire. “Female Romantic Poetry, 1798–1819: The Climate of Fear and the Loss of a
Radical Generation”. Women’s Writing 28.3 (2021): 305–19. DOI:
10.1080/09699082.2020.1746050.
Laird, Karen E. “Adapting the Saints: Romantic Hagiography in Felicia Hemans’s Records of
Woman”. Women’s Writing 20.4 (2013): 496–517. DOI: 10.1080/09699082.2012.747254.
Matthews, Samatha. Album Verses and Romantic Literary Culture: Poetry, Manuscript, Print, 1750-1850.
Oxford UP, 2020.
Osman, Sharifah. “‘Mightier than Death, Untamable by Fate’: Felicia Hemans’s Byronic Heroines
and the Sorority of the Domestic Affections”. Romanticism on the Net 43 (2006). DOI:
10.7202/013590ar.
Saglia, Diego. “Ending the Romance: Women Poets and the Romantic Verse Tale”. Romantic Women
Poets: Genre and Gender. Ed. Lilla Maria Crisafulli and Cecilia Pietropoli, Brill Academic
Publishers; Editions Rodopi B.V., 2007, 153–67.
--. “‘A Deeper and Richer Music’: The Poetics of Sound and Voice in Felicia Hemans’s 1820s
Poetry”. ELH: English Literary History 74.2 (2007): 351–70. DOI: 10.1353/elh.2007.0018.
--. “The Society of Foreign Voices: National Lyrics, and Songs for Music and Hemans’s
International Poetics”. Women’s Writing 21.1 (2014): 110–27. DOI:
10.1080/09699082.2014.881067.
Simonsen, Peter. “Late Romantic Ekphrasis: Felicia Hemans, Leigh Hunt and the Return of the
Visible”. Orbis Litterarum 60.5 (2005): 317–43. DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0730.2005.00841.x.
Sweet Nanora (ed.). Felicia Hemans: Reimagining Poetry in the Nineteenth Century. Palgrave Macmillan,
2001.
Wolfson, Susan J. Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism. Stanford UP, 2006.
--. “‘Something Must Be Done’: Shelley, Hemans, and the Flash of Revolutionary Female
Violence”. Fellow Romantics: Male and Female British Writers, 1790-1835. Ed. Beth Lau,
Routledge, 2009, 99–122.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Bristow, Joseph (ed.). Victorian Women Poets: Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti.
Macmillan, 1995.
Chapman, Alison. “Poetry, Network, Nation: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Expatriate Women’s
Poetry”. Victorian Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Social, Political, and Cultural Studies 55.2
(2013): 275–85. DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.55.2.275.
Gbogi, Michael Tosin. “Refiguring the Subversive in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh and
Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market’”. Neohelicon: Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum
41.2 (2014): 503–16. DOI: 10.1007/s11059-014-0233-1.
Glennis, Stephenson. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Poetry of Love. UMI Research P, 1989.
Hawlin, Stefan. “Love Among the Political Ruins: 1848 and the Political Unconscious of Men and
Women”. Victorian Poetry 50.4 (2012): 503–20. DOI: 10.1353/vp.2012.0038.
King, Joshua. “Child Labour and the Idolatry of Nature in ‘The Cry of the Children’ and A Drama
of Exile”. Women’s Writing 27.4 (2020): 404–15. DOI: 10.1080/09699082.2020.1775922.
Levine, Caroline. “Rhythms, Poetic and Political: The Case of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”. Victorian
Poetry 49.2 (2011): 235–52. DOI: 10.1353/vp.2011.0011.
Lewis, Linda. “George Sand’s Consuelo and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh: Visionary
Socialism versus Feminist Capitalism”. George Sand Studies 31 (2012): 51–62.
Martinez, Michele C. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh: A Reading Guide. Edinburgh UP, 2012.
Nesbit, Kate. “Revising Respiration: Mesmerism, Spiritualism, and the Shared Breath of Poetic
Voice in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh”. Victorian Poetry 56.3 (2018): 213–32.
Pollock, Mary Sanders. “Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Failed Pastoral and the Environments of the
Poor”. Victorian Environmental Nightmares. Ed. Laurence W. Mazzeno, Ronald D. Morrison.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 45–60. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-14042-7_3.
Schuster, Donna Decker. “Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Rhetorical Location: Modern Rhetors
Transgressing Culture and Transforming Genre”. Women’s Literary Creativity and the Female
Body. Ed. Diane Long Hoeveler and Donna Decker Schuster. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 65–
80.
Stone, Marjorie. “Witness Narratives and Working-Class Suffering: ‘The Cry of the Children,’ Corn
Law Rhymes, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Unpublished Hunger Ballad”. Victorian
Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Social, Political, and Cultural Studies 62.4 (2020): 616–43.
Taylor, Beverly. “Burying the Poetess: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poetesses, and the Male Poetic
Tradition”. Victorian Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies 48.2 (2022): 159–
62. DOI: 10.1353/vcr.2022.a900613.
Wynter, Jerome S. “‘I Trust That I Am a Liberal’: The Politics and Poetics of Elizabeth Barrett
Browning’s Early Antislavery Verse”. Victorian Poetry 60.3 (2022): 297–323. DOI:
10.1353/vp.2022.0016.
Woodworth, Elizabeth D. “‘I Cry Aloud in My Poet-Passion’: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Claiming
Political ‘Place’ through Poems before Congress”. Browning Society Notes 32 (2007): 38–54.

Christina Rossetti
Arseneau, Mary, et al. The Culture of Christina Rossetti: Female Poetics and Victorian Contexts. Ohio UP,
1999.
Bishop, Nadean. “Sacred Frenzies: Repressed Eroticism in the Poetry of Christina Rossetti”. Reform
and Counterreform: Dialectics of the Word in Western Christianity since Luther, 1994, 139–52.
Cooke, Simon. “Interpreting Masculinity: Pre-Raphaelite Illustration and the Works of Tennyson,
Christina Rossetti and Trollope”. Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities: Constructions of Masculinity in Art
and Literature. Ed. Amelia Yeates et al. Routledge, 2014, 127–49.
Coulson, Victoria. “Redemption and Representation in Goblin Market: Christina Rossetti and the
Salvific Signifier”. Victorian Poetry 55.4 (2017): 423–50.
D’Amico, Diane. Christina Rossetti: Faith, Gender, and Time. Louisiana State UP, 1999.
--. “The House of Christina Rossetti: Domestic and Poetic Spaces”. The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite
Studies 19 (2010): 31–54.
Deuter, Crystie. “Christina Rossetti as a ‘Feminist’ Poet”. Feminist. Ed. Robert C. Evans. Salem P,
2018, 155–72.
Escobar, Kirsten E. “Female Saint, Female Prodigal: Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market’”. Religion
& the Arts 5.1/2 (2001): 129-154. DOI: 10.1163/156852901753498151.
Harrington, Emily. Second Person Singular: Late Victorian Women Poets and the Bonds of Verse. U of
Virginia P, 2014.
Hill, Marylu. “‘Eat Me, Drink Me, Love Me’: Eucharist and the Erotic Body in Christina Rossetti’s
Goblin Market”. Victorian Poetry 43.4 (2005): 455–72. DOI: 10.1353/vp.2006.0003.
Ludlow, Elizabeth. Christina Rossetti and the Bible: Waiting with the Saints. Bloomsbury, 2014.
Mayer, Jed. “‘Come Buy, Come Buy!’: Christina Rossetti and the Victorian Animal Market”. Animals
in Victorian Literature and Culture: Contexts for Criticism. Ed. Laurence W. Mazzeno and Ronald
D. Morrison. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 213–31.
Mason, Emma. Christina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith. OUP, 2018.
McLaughlan, Robbie. “The Rossettian Formula: No Love without Suffering”. Victoriographies 5.3
(2015): 251–68. DOI: 10.3366/vic.2015.0198.
Merchant, Peter. “`Like a Beacon Left Alone’: The Position of Christina Rossetti’s Goblin
Market”. Children’s Literature in Education 25.2 (1994): 67–81. DOI: 10.1007/BF02355396.
Owens, Susan, and Nicholas Tromans (eds.). Christina Rossetti: Poetry in Art. Yale UP, 2018.
Öz, Fahrï. “‘To Take Were to Purloin’: Sexuality in the Narrative Poems of Christina
Rossetti”. “And Never Know the Joy”: Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry. Ed. C. C. Barfoot. Brill
Academic Publishers; Editions Rodopi B.V., 2006, 259–72.
Plourde, Aubrey. “The Innocent Old Way: Reserved Interpretation and Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin
Market’”. PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 134.5 (2019): 1076–
93.
Reeves, Nancee. “Vampires and Goblins: Coleridge’s Influence on Christina Rossetti”. The Journal of
Pre-Raphaelite Studies 21 (2012): 63–71.
Salerno, Allen J. “Reappraisals of the Flesh: Christina Rossetti and the Revision of Pre-Raphaelite
Aesthetics”. The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 10 (2001): 71–89.
Scholl, Lesa. Food Restraint and Fasting in Victorian Religion and Literature. Bloomsbury Academic,
2022. DOI: 10.5040/9781350256545.
Smith, Hannah Corinne. “‘Resplendent with Charms, Scant of Attractiveness’: Woman’s Power in
Petrarch and Christina Rossetti”. The Sigma Tau Delta Review 8 (2011): 60–68.
Trowbridge, Serena. Christina Rossetti’s Gothic. Bloomsbury, 2013.
Waldman, Suzanne. The Demon and the Damozel: Dynamics of Desire in the Works of Christina Rossetti and
Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Ohio UP, 2008.