Victorian Women Writers and the Classics

Isobel Hurst is Tutor in English and Classics at the Universities of Oxford and Warwick.

• Introduction ; 1. Encounters with the ancient world in nineteenth-century literature ; 2. Classical training for the woman writer ; 3. 'Unscrupulously epic' ; 4. Classics and the family in the Victorian novel ; 5. Greek heroines and the wrongs of women ; 6. Revising the Victorians ; Conclusion

Both scholars and more general readers will find much interest in Hurst's accessible contribution to the Classical Presences series, with its adroit summaries of the position of women's classical education in the Victorian period and its effect on the shaping of much of women's classical writing over the course of the century.