The first collection to make a comprehensive study of nineteenth-century women's poetry from late Romantic to late Victorian 'new woman' writers. Eighteen essays consider the gendered codes and genres developed by sophisticated poets. The feminine subject and marketing, a woman's tradition, lesbian desire, war, race, colonial experience, religion and science are themes of the collection, featuring, as well as the familiar Christina Rossetti and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, other poets such as 'L. E.L.', Felicia Hemans, Amy Levy and Augusta Webster. | Women's Poetry Late Romantic To Late Victorian by I. Armstrong, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters