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  1. 12-04-2005, 03:11 PM #1
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    Nineteenth Century Female Novelists

    hi...

    I need soem help regarding nineteenth century female novelists aka victorian novelists (?)

    Are these the only famous female novelists of nineteenth century,

    Jane Austin
    Brontë
    Eliot, George
    Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
    Burney, Fanny
    Edgeworth, Maria
    Wollstonecraft, Mary
    Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
    Baillie, Joanna
    Susan Ferrier
    Mary Hays
    Inchbald, Elizabeth
    Frances Sheridan
    Charlotte Smith
    Ann Yearsley


    If there are any more please do tell me, plus if anybody knows a good site from where I can find a summary of nineteenth century female novelists, kindly tell me as I've googled it but can't find any summary regarding this topic.

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  2. 12-04-2005, 03:36 PM #2
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    Louisa May Alcott
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Three Bontes: Charlotte, Emily, Anne
    George Sand
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  3. 12-05-2005, 05:17 AM #3
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    You can try Victorian Web.

    I don't see the name of Elizabeth Gaskell in your list. And both Mary Shelley and Jane Austen are far from being victorian.
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    Burnnet, frances hodgson

    not spelt write and I know sommore but cant think.

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    female novelists

    Emily Dickinson and the russian I.Marina Czevetaiava.
    Look at the www.Example and essayes .com

    I should find something special about the Woolf's "orlando" i mean critics and things like that can anybody help me?
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  6. 12-05-2005, 06:29 AM #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by michela
    I should find something special about the Woolf's "orlando" i mean critics and things like that can anybody help me?
    The Book Club read Orlando in March:

    http://www.online-literature.com/for...ead.php?t=4090

    You might find some of the links refered in the posts useful.

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  7. 12-05-2005, 12:14 PM #7
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    20th century women writers were better (less melodramatic, more realistic or surrealistic.) Two of the best were Marjorie Rawlings and Isak Dinesen. Some people also like Virginia Woolf more than I do.
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    Quote Originally Posted by starrwriter
    Some people also like Virginia Woolf more than I do.
    *is not one of those people*
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    Hehe, The people I know, most of them don't like Woolfy at all. I have heard that she was a feminist.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pensive
    Hehe, The people I know, most of them don't like Woolfy at all. I have heard that she was a feminist.
    Yeah, that is why I don't like her!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade
    Yeah, that is why I don't like her!
    An intelligent educated woman who doesn't like feminism? What a concept!

    Watch out, Scher. Your conservative roots are showing.
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    Hey I dont like feminests much but I cant stand whats it called Masoginisim? or is it chauvnists? well one of them anyway and even worse then feminstrs is the idea people can survive on their own.
    Melodrama is fun somtimes they take themselves so seriouslly you just HAVE to laugh. Its great. Although it can get annoying if theres too much of it......
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nightshade
    Hey I dont like feminests much but I cant stand whats it called Masoginisim? or is it chauvnists?
    My definition of a misogynist is a man who has had an intimate relationship with at least one woman.
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    Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse I think ranks in the top five of all time English novels. Most feminists bore me, but that doesn't mean they can't write good novels.
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    I have just read this post now, and everyone appears to have already listed the most significant authors.Nearly all of the main ones, that I would have listed, are already there, but I'll just add one more that came to mind as I was reading the previous names.Ann Radcliff(1764-1823) was the first female who wrote alot of successful Gothic fiction, and though she began in the late eighteenth century, with a few books, her last published work was actually not until 1826 (posthumously presented to the public).She is most famous for The Mysteries of Udolpho , which was read by fellow Gothic authors such as the young Mary Shelley.


    Radcliffe's Published Books:

    The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne - 1789
    A Sicilian Romance: A Highland Story - 1790
    The Romance of the Forest - 1792
    The Mysteries of Udolpho: A Romance - 1794
    The Italian: or, The Confessional of the Black Penitents - 1797
    Gaston de Blondeville: or, The Court of Henry III Keeping Festival in Ardennes - 1826
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