Mathilde Blind: Late-Victorian Culture and the Woman of Letters PDF
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Mathilde Blind Victorian Literature and Culture Series Jerome J. McGann and Herbert F. Tucker, Editors Mathilde Blind Late-Victorian Culture and the Woman of Letters James Diedrick University of Virginia Press Charlottesville and London University of Virginia Press © 2016 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid- free paper First published 2016 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Diedrick, James, 1951– author. Title: Mathilde Blind: Late-Victorian culture and the Woman of Letters / James Diedrick. Description: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017. | Series: Victorian literature and culture series | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016012003 | ISBN 9780813939315 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780813939322 (e- book) Subjects: LCSH: Blind, Mathilde, 1841–1896. | Women authors, English—19th century—Biography. | Women critics—Great Britain—19th century— Biography. | Feminists—Great Britain—19th century—Biography. | Blind, Mathilde, 1841–1896—Political and social views. | Blind, Mathilde, 1841–1896— Interpretation and criticism. Classification: LCC PR4149.B55 Z55 2017 | DDC 821 / . 8 [B]—dc23 LC record available at https: / / lccn .loc .gov / 2016012003 Cover art: Mathilde Blind, by Harold Rathbone, 1889. (Private collection; photo © Philip Mould Ltd, London / Bridgeman Images) To the memory of my parents Contents List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Chronology xvii 1 The Making of a Cosmopolitan: 1841–1867 1 2 Romancing Shelley and Others: 1868–1870 37 3 A Pioneering Female Aesthete: 1871–1872 71 4 Translating Strauss, Traveling in Scotland: 1873–1874 104 5 Freethinkers and Feminists: 1874–1881 135 6 Biographer, Novelist, Polemical Poet: 1882–1887 174 7 A Leading New Woman: 1888–1893 204 8 “But a Bird of Passage”: 1893–1896 233 Notes 263 Bibliography 293 Index 305 Illustrations Algernon Charles Swinburne, ca. 1865 33 Mathilde Blind, ca. 1870 46 Richard Garnett, 1901 56 William Michael Rossetti, 1865 61 Joaquin Miller, 1874 78 Mathilde Blind, by Lucy Madox Brown, 1872 83 A. Mary F. Robinson, ca. 1880 142 Ford Madox Brown, ca. 1870 146 Mathilde Blind, by Ford Madox Brown, 1876 149 Vernon Lee, by John Singer Sargent, 1881 171 Jean et Jacques, by Marie Bashkirtseff, 1883 207 Arthur Symons, ca. 1885 212 Mathilde Blind, by Harold Rathbone, 1889 221 Frontispiece by Ford Madox Brown for Mathilde Blind’s Dramas in Miniature, 1891 223 Mathilde Blind, ca. 1890 229
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