Female Power

• Goddesses
• Circe and other sorceresses
• Desiring Women: Myth, Love and Leighton’s Clytie
• Diana
• The Femme Fatale
• Femme Fatale, Seductress, or Destroyer
• Woman at the Fin de Siècle — The Creation of the Femme Fatale
• The Devouring Woman and Her Serpentine Hair
• Woman as Monster: Vampires, Harpies, Sirens, Mermaids, Medusa
• Judith
• Judith and other Heroic Seductresses — Woman as Just Destroyer
• Depictions of Judith
• Salome
• Introduction
• Salome in the the Fin de Siècle Imagination
• Lilith

Female Powerlessness — Woman as Victim

• The Woman destroyed by Love in all its Forms and Fates
• Fallen Women
• Ophelia
• Women in Chains -- Andromeda, Angelica, Iphigenia, and others
• Dead Woman in a Boat -- Elaine and others
• Victims and Martyrs

Objects of Desire

• Briarose, or the Sleeping Beauty
• Embowered Maidens
• The Adoring Woman, Waiting or Abandoned
• Ladies of Shalott
• Odalisques and Orientalism
• Pre-Raphaelite Women

Women as Ideal

• Rossetti's Fair Lady
• Madonnas and Mothers
• Reverie and the Contemplative Woman (homepage)
• Pygmalion's Galatea — the ideal woman created by a man

Miscellaneous

• Servants and Governesses
• Women as Other: female workers -- seamstresses, servants, and factory hands
• Women as Other: women in the colonies
• Women artists
• Women in caricature -- Punch

Related Material

• Pre-Victorian Sculptures of Victimized and Victimizing Women
• Pre-Victorian Painting of Victimized and Victimizing Women
• The Female Body in the Nineteenth Century — Primary & Secondary Materials