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Women and literature

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Images from the collections

Images about Women and literature

2 images from works
  • A woman reads a book during her toilet and does not concentrate on what she is doing. Aquatint.
  • A young woman is leaning against a wall reading a book as snowflakes fall. Wood engraving by Dalziel Brothers, 1863, after E. Burne-Jones.

Works from the collections

45 works

    • Books

    Ventriloquized bodies : narratives of hysteria in nineteenth-century France / Janet Beizer.

    Beizer, Janet L., 1952- | Date: 1994
    • Books

    The female thermometer : eighteenth-century culture and the invention of the uncanny / Terry Castle.

    Castle, Terry. | Date: 1995
    • Books

    Women musicians in Victorian fiction, 1860-1900 : representations of music, science, and gender in the leisured home / Phyllis Weliver.

    Weliver, Phyllis. | Date: [2000], ©2000
    • Books

    Love's madness : medicine, the novel, and female insanity, 1800-1865 / Helen Small.

    Small, Helen. | Date: 1996
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    The lesbian muse and poetic identity, 1889-1930 / by Sarah Parker.

    Parker, Sarah, 1985- | Date: 2013

Related topics

History, 19th Century
United Kingdom
Feminism and literature
History, 18th Century
United States
Literature
Medicine in Literature
Gender identity in literature
History, 20th Century
France

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