The Woman Question refers to the Victorian debate about gender roles, marriage, and women's rights.

Women in Victorian England

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Daily Life in Victorian England by Sally Mitchell
ISBN: 9780313350344

Publication Date: 2008-11-30
Fathers in Victorian Fiction by Natalie McKnight
ISBN: 9781443832915

Publication Date: 2011-10-01
Gender and Victorian Reform by Anita Rose
ISBN: 9781443800679

Publication Date: 2008-12-01

Watching Hannah: Sexuality, Horror & Bodily De-Formation in Victorian England

Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful Marriages

Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship

Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages

Dreams: Three Works (Late Victorian and early Modernist women writers)

Language of Gender and Class: Transformation in the Victorian Novel

Croquet and Its Influences on Victorian Society: The First Game That Men and Women Could Play Together Socially

Fathers in Victorian Fiction

Gender and Victorian Reform

The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870

Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity: Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity

Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics, and Politics

A Vindication on the Rights of Woman
The entire pamphlet by Mary Wollstonecraft
BBC Suffragettes
this site is a collection of suffragette and British Women's Rights information.
Victorian Women Writers Project
Includes transcriptions of the work of British women writers of the 19th-century, including poetry and verse, pamphlets, religious tracts, novels, and more. The site has not been updated since 2003, but it continues to be a useful source of 19th-century women’s writing.
The Victorians: Gender & Sexuality
A lecture presented by Gresham College on Victorian gender issues. Personal life was governed by complex and rigid rules of behaviour. Like other aspects of Victorian culture this began to break down in the fin-de-siécle. Yet recent research, discussed in this lecture, has undermined this rather simplistic picture and begun to explore some of the contradictions and complexities of Victorian attitudes to marriage and sexuality. The place of women in Victorian culture was by no means as passive or subordinate as conventional images of the era suggest.
Christina Rossetti: gender and power- by Simon Avery
The Victorian period witnessed massive changes in thinking about women’s roles in society. Dr Simon Avery asks how Christina Rossetti's poetry sits within this context, looking at her representations of oppression, female identity, marriage and the play of power between men and women.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Woman Question- by Simon Avery
Dr Simon Avery considers how Elizabeth Barrett Browning used poetry to explore and challenge traditional Victorian roles for women, assessing the early influences on her work and thought.

ENGL 4325/5325- Victorian Literature

The Woman Question refers to the Victorian debate about gender roles, marriage, and women's rights.

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