Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany

Linda K. Hughes is Addie Levy Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University. She edited The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and has published extensively on long nineteenth century literature, culture, and women's and gender studies. Her earlier books include The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Graham R.: Rosamund Marriott Watson, Woman of Letters (2005), which received the Colby Prize.

• 1. Entrée to the 'other' Germany: Anna Jameson, Ottilie von Goethe, and their women's network; 2. Germany through a female lens: Anna Jameson's writings, 1834-1860; 3. Networked families in Germany: Mary Howitt, Anna Mary Howitt, and Elizabeth Gaskell; 4. An unbeliever in Germany: Marian Evans (George Eliot), 1854-5; 5. The Anglo-German fiction of George Eliot and Jessie Fothergill: Daniel Deronda (1876) and The First Violin (1878); 6. New woman travellers and translators: Michael Field and Amy Levy; 7. An Anglo-German expatriate-citizen: Elizabeth von Arnim; 8 Queer borders: Vernon Lee's haunted expatriate writings.

'well written asnd researched' Rosemary Ashton, Times Literary Supplement