Aurora Floyd
Mary Elizabeth Braddon and P. D. Edwards (ed.)
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‘With Lady Audley’s Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon had established herself, alongside Wilkie Collins and Mrs Henry Wood, as one of the ruling ...
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The Enchanted April
Elizabeth von Arnim and Isobel Maddison (ed.)
Four very different women—the dishevelled and downtrodden Mrs Wilkins, the sad, sweet-faced Mrs Arbuthnot, the formidable widow Mrs Fisher, and the ravishing socialite Lady Caroline ...
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The Female Quixote: or The Adventures of Arabella
Charlotte Lennox, Margaret Dalziel (ed.), and Margaret Anne Doody
The Female Quixote (1752), a vivacious and ironical novel parodying the style of Cervantes, portrays the beautiful and aristocratic Arabella, whose passion for reading romances leads her ...
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Jacob’s Room
Virginia Woolf and Urmila Seshagiri (ed.)
Who is Jacob Flanders? Virginia Woolf’s third novel, published in 1922 alongside James Joyce’s Ulysses and T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, follows this elusive title character from a sunlit ...
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Kew Gardens and Other Short Fiction (2 ed.)
Virginia Woolf, Bryony Randall (ed.), and David Bradshaw (ed.)
Virginia Woolf’s short fiction has long been acknowledged as the place where she tried out some of her more experimental techniques before adopting and adapting them for use in her ...
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Lady Audley's Secret
Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Lyn Pykett (ed.)
It only rests with yourself to become Lady Audley, and the mistress of Audley Court.’ When beautiful young Lucy Graham accepts the hand of Sir Michael Audley, her fortune and her future ...
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The Last Man
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Morton D. Paley (ed.)
The last man! I may well describe that solitary being’s feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.’ Mary Shelley, Journal (May 1824). ...
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë
Elizabeth Gaskell and Angus Easson (ed.)
It is in every way worthy of what one great woman should have written of another.' Patrick Brontë Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) is a pioneering biography of one ...
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The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction
Virginia Woolf and David Bradshaw (ed.)
‘I shall never forget the day I wrote “The Mark on the Wall” - all in a flash, as if flying, after being kept stone breaking for months. “The Unwritten Novel” was the great discovery, ...
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Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf and David Bradshaw (ed.)
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf’s fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of ...
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Night and Day
Virginia Woolf and Suzanne Raitt (ed.)
Katherine Hilbery, torn between past and present, is a figure reflecting Woolf’s own struggle with history. Both have illustrious literary ancestors: in Katherine’s case, her poet ...
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Orlando (2 ed.)
Virginia Woolf and Michael H. Whitworth (ed.)
Orlando tells the tale of an extraordinary individual who lives through centuries of English history, first as a man, then as a woman; of his/her encounters with queens, kings, ...
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Selected Stories
Katherine Mansfield and Angela Smith (ed.)
‘I was jealous of her writing. The only writing I have ever been jealous of.’ Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf was not the only writer to admire Mansfield’s work: Thomas Hardy, D. H. ...
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To The Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf and David Bradshaw (ed.)
Inspired by the lost bliss of her childhood summers in Cornwall, Virginia Woolf produced one of the masterworks of English literature in To the Lighthouse. It concerns the Ramsay family and ...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution
Mary Wollstonecraft and Janet Todd (ed.)
This volume brings together extracts of the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces her passionate and ...
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The Voyage Out
Virginia Woolf and Lorna Sage (ed.)
The Voyage Out (1915) is the story of a rite of passage. When Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father’s ship she is launched on a course of self-discovery in a ...
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