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,Caroline Norton (1808–1877): The Injured Wife, Scandal, and the Politics of Feminist Memory,monstrates how the recent resurgence of literary interest in Norton’s fiction and poetry has finally begun to treat Norton’s career with the seriousness that her achievements and her authorial professionalism calls for.

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,The Biographer as Biographee: Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865),o what extend does truth clash with or invite fiction in the recounting of the life of the multi-faceted personality that Gaskell was during her full life? These are the main issues that this chapter proposes to address.

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,“A Woman Whom Men Could More Than Love”: Transfiguring the Unlovely in George Eliot (1819–1880),ndalous aspects of Eliot’s sexuality and circumscribing her genius by asserting her emotional dependence, recent biographies of George Eliot diminish her artistic accomplishments as a novelist gifted with intellectual force and the strength to act on her own convictions.

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,Irony upon Irony: The Persistence of Gordon Haight’s Perceptions of Edith Simcox (1844–1901),ight, the leading Eliot scholar. All of Eliot’s biographers quote extensively from the biographical facts that Simcox provides about Eliot in her works while protecting her from the “taint” of Simcox’s love.

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,A Vindication of the Woman Known as Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797),ose of exposing the gaps and contradictions and then attempts to fill and reconcile them, respectively. It is an effort to resituate Wollstonecraft as a woman of her time and to identify those influences that made her who she was.

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,Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838): Whose Poetess?,d, as a woman who “seems to have capitulated… utterly to the sexual double standard” (21). As more scholars read Landon, they came to other conclusions, and she was alternately depicted as innocent, capitalist, proto-feminist, and unwed mother. This chapter explores the various ways critics have (mis-)read Landon’s life and work.

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,The After-lives of Felicia Hemans (1793–1835): Biographical Misconstructions,letters? By mapping the many after-lives of Hemans in these memoirs, this essay examines how these questions have been answered by Hemans’ life after death and how these answers might inform our current understanding of her life and her works.

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