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Warwick Series in the Humanities Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840–1920 Edited by Gemma Goodman and Charlotte Mathieson Number 3 GENDER AND SPACE IN RURAL BRITAIN, 1840–1920 Warwick Series in the Humanities Series Editor: Tim Lockley Titles in this Series 1 Classicism and Romanticism in Italian Literature: Leopardi’s Discourse on Romantic Poetry Fabio A. Camilletti 2 Rome, Postmodern Narratives of a Cityscape Dom Holdaway and Filippo Trentin (eds) Forthcoming Titles Picturing Women’s Health Kate Scarth, Francesca Scott and Ji Won Chung (eds) www.pickeringchatto.com/warwick GENDER AND SPACE IN RURAL BRITAIN, 1840–1920 Edited by Gemma Goodman and Charlotte Mathieson PICKERING & CHATTO 2014 Published by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited 21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH 2252 Ridge Road, Brookfi eld, Vermont 05036-9704, USA www.pickeringchatto.com All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without prior permission of the publisher. © Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd 2014 © Gemma Goodman and Charlotte Mathieson 2014 To the best of the Publisher’s knowledge every eff ort has been made to contact relevant copyright holders and to clear any relevant copyright issues. Any omissions that come to their attention will be remedied in future editions. british library cataloguing in publication data Gender and space in rural Britain, 1840–1920. – (Warwick series in the human- ities) 1. Country life in literature. 2. Rural conditions in literature. 3. Rural women in literature. 4. Country life – Great Britain – History – 19th century – Sources. 5. Country life – Great Britain – History – 20th century – Sources. 6. English literature – 19th century – History and criticism. 7. English literature – 20th century – History and criticism. I. Series II. Goodman, Gemma. editor of compilation. III. Mathieson, Char- lotte, editor of compilation. 820.9’321734-dc23 ISBN-13: 9781848934405 e: 9781781440643 ∞ Th is publication is printed on acid-free paper that conforms to the American National Standard for the Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. Typeset by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited Printed and bound in the United Kingdom by CPI Books CONTENTS Acknowledgements vii List of Contributors ix Introduction: Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840–1920 – Gemma Goodman and Charlotte Mathieson 1 1 Women in the Field – Roger Ebbatson 15 2 ‘Between Two Civilizations’: George Sturt’s Constructions of Loss and Change in Village Life – Barry Sloan 25 3 At Work and at Play: Charles Lee’s Cynthia in the West – Gemma Goodman 41 4 ‘Going Out, Going Alone’: Modern Subjectivities in Rural Scotland, 1900–21 – Samantha Walton 55 5 ‘Drowned Lands’: Charles Kingsley’s Hereward the Wake and the Masculation of the English Fens – Lynsey McCulloch 73 6 ‘Wandering Like a Wild Th ing’: Rurality, Women and Walking in George Eliot’s Adam Bede and Th e Mill on the Floss – Charlotte Mathieson 87 7 ‘I Never Liked Long Walks’: Gender, Nature and Jane Eyre’s Rural Wandering – Katherine F. Montgomery 103 8 Gertrude Jekyll: Cultivating the Gendered Space of the Victorian Garden for Professional Success – Christen Ericsson-Penfold 117 9 From England to Eden: Gardens, Gender and Knowledge in Virginia Woolf’s Th e Voyage Out – Karina Jakubowicz 131 10 Th e Transnational Rural in Alicia Little’s My Diary in a Chinese Farm – Eliza S. K. Leong 145 Notes 161 Index 187 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Th is collection of essays originated from the symposium ‘Rural Geographies of Gender and Space: Britain 1840–1920’ held at the University of Warwick on 23 September 2011. Th e symposium was funded through the University of War- wick’s Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) and an award from the University’s Roberts Fund for Early Career Researchers. We are highly grateful for the gener- ous support from both funds that enabled us to initiate the conversations and debates that have taken shape in this collection. Th anks are also due to members of the University of Warwick’s Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies in helping us to shape the ideas and directions of this research project. We are also grateful to those who have read and commented on chapter draft s, and particular thanks go to Gill Frith and Rachel Moseley for their advice and guidance throughout. We would also like to thank the University of Warwick’s Humanities Research Centre for providing us with valuable feedback in the early stages of the collection’s development. – vii – LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Roger Ebbatson is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Lancaster. His monographs include Landscape and Literature 1830–1914: Nature, Text, Aura (2013), Hardy: Mar- gin of the Unexpressed (1993), An Imaginary England: Landscape & Literature, 1840–1920 (2005) and Heidegger’s Bicycle (2006). Professor Ebbatson served on the British Association for Victorian Studies steering committee for some years, and is currently co-organizer of the Tennyson Bicentenary Conference (2009) and the Th omas Hardy International Conference (2010). Christen Elaine Ericsson-Penfold recently earned her PhD from the University of Southampton. Her project is entitled ‘Th ree Victorian Women Artists and their Relationship with Flowers: An Exploration of Gender, Expression and Culture’ and explores the cultural and personal symbolism behind the subject of fl owers in women’s art. Prior to her doctoral work, Ericsson studied at the Textile Con- servation Centre where, in 2007, she earned her Masters degree in Museums and Galleries with a focus on the history of textiles and dress. Gemma Goodman is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She completed her PhD entitled ‘Cornwall: An Alternative Construction of Place’ in 2010 and is currently working on a monograph based on this material. Her research interests focus on Cornish literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth century in relation to the economic and cultural shift from mining to tour- ism. She has published on Cornish writers including Salome Hocking and Jack Clemo. Karina Jakubowicz is currently a PhD student at University College London researching the role of geography in modernist magazines, prior to which she studied English at Trinity College Dublin and completed a Masters in American Literature at Clare College Cambridge. Eliza S. K. Leong is a lecturer at the Institute of Tourism Studies in Macao, China. She received her doctorate from the Catholic University of Portugal for – ix –
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