Books

Anand, Anita. Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary. London: Bloomsbury, 2015 [Review by Jacqueline Banerjee].

Arondekar, Anjali. For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009 [Review by Josna E. Rege].

Bolt, Rodney. As Good as God, as Clever as the Devil: The Impossible Life of Mary Benson. London: Atlantic Books, 2011. [Review by Joe Pilling].

Bryant, Chris. James and John: A True Story of Prejudice and Murder. London: Bloomsbury, 2024. ‎[Review by Jacqueline Banerjee].

Chapman, Don. Wearing the Trousers: Fashion, Freedom and the Rise of the Modern Woman. Stroud, Glos.: Amberley, 2017. [Review by Jacqueline Banerjee].

Dobbins, Meg. Queer Economic Dissonance and Victorian Literature. Ohio State University Press, 2022; and Simon Joyce's LGBT Victorians: Sexuality and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Archives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022 [Review by Jo Devereux].

Fiske, Shanyn. Heretical Hellenism: Women Writers, Ancient Greece, and the Victorian Popular Imagination. Athens. Ohio University Press, 2008 [Review by Frank Turner].

Flanders, Judith. A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin. New ed. London: Penguin, 2002 [Review by Joe Pilling].

Galvan, Jill. The “The Sympathetic Medium: Feminine Channeling, the Occult, and Communication Technologies, 1859-1919. Cornell, 2010.[Review by Tom Bragg].

Gilbert, Nora. Better Left Unsaid: Victorian Novels, Hays Code Films, and the Benefits of Censorship. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013.[Review by Ellen Moody].

Godfrey, Emelyne. The “Masculinity, Crime, and Self-Defense in Victorian Literature . Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. [Review by Linda Sion].

Hallum, Kirby-Jane. Aestheticism and the Marriage Market in Victorian Popular Fiction: The Art of Female Beauty. Literary Texts and the Popular Marketplace Series, No. 8. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2015. [Review by Helena Ifill].

Harrington, Emily. Second Person Singular: Late Victorian Women Poets and the Bonds of Verse. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2014. [Review by Katherine Miller Weber].

Holden, Philip. Autobiography and Decolonization: Modernity, Masculinity, and the Nation-State [Review by George P Landow].

Hyman, Gwen. The “Making a Man: Gentlemanly Appetites in the nineteenth-century British Novel. Ohio, 2009. [Review by Pamela K. Gilbert].

Jones, Garrett. Alfred and Arthur: An Historic Friendship. Hertford, U.K.: Authors OnLine, 2001. [Review by George P Landow: "Were Tennyson and Hallam Gay, and Did They Have a Physically Consummated Homosexual Relationship?"].

Joyce, Simon. LGBT Victorians: Sexuality and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Archives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022; and Meg Dobbins's Queer Economic Dissonance and Victorian Literature. Ohio State University Press, 2022 [Review by Jo Devereux].

Jungnickel, Kat. Bikes and Bloomers: Victorian Women Inventors and the Extraordinary Cycle Wear. London: Goldsmiths, 2018 [Review by Jacqueline Banerjee].

Krueger, Christine. The Reader's Repentance: Women Preachers, Women Writers, and Nineteenth-Century Social Discourse. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1992 [Review by Asako Serizawa].

Krueger, Christine. The “Reading for the Law: British Literary History and Gender Advocacy . Virginia, 2010. [Review by Robert Barsky].

Laurent, Béatrice. Sleeping Beauties in Victorian Britain Cultural, Literary and Artistic Explorations of a Myth. Bern: Peter Lang, 2015. [Reviewed by Laurent Bury].

Ledbetter, Kathryn. British Victorian Women's Periodicals: Beauty, Civilization, Poetry. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 [Review by Kimberly J. Stern].

Lee, Ying S. Masculinity and the English Working Class: Studies in Victorian Autobiography and Fiction. Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory. Routledge, 2012 [Review by Cora Kaplan].

Machann, Clinton. The “Masculinity in Four Victorian Epics — a Darwinist Reading . Ashgate, 2010. [Review by Adelene Buckland].

McKenna, Neil. Fanny and Stella: The Young Men who Shocked Victorian England. London: Faber & Faber, 2013. [Review by Shannon Gilstrap].

Macaluso, Elizabeth D. Gender, the New Woman, and the Monster. London: Palgrave, 2019. [Review by Jo Devereux].

Manton, Jo. Sister Dora: The Life of Dorothy Pattison. London: Methuen, 1971, and Quartet 1977. [Review by Joe Pilling].

Markwick, Margaret, Deborah Denenholz Morse and Regenia Gagnier, eds. The Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollope's Novels. Ashgate, 2009. [Review by N. John Hall].

Milne-Smith, Amy. Out of His Mind: Masculinity and Mental Illness in Victorian Britain. Pbk ed. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022. [Review by Jacqueline Banerjee].

Nicholson, Shirley. A Victorian Household: Based on the Diaries of Marion Sambourne. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1988. [Review by John Hilary].

Pearson, Jacqueline. Women's Reading in Britain, 1750-1835: A Dangerous Recreation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. [Review by Jacqueline Banerjee].

Pécastaing-Boissière, Muriel, et Marie Terrier. Annie Besant (1847-1933): La lutte et la quête (The Struggle and the Quest). Paris: Éditions Adyar, 2015. [Review by Bénédicte Coste].

Quirk, Maria. Women, Art and Money in Late Victorian and Edwardian England. London: Bloomsbury, 2019. [Review by Pamela Gerrish Nunn].

Rubenhold, Hallie. The Five: The Untold Stories of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper. London: Doubleday, 2019. [Review by Simon Cooke].

Stockton, Kathryn Bond. God between Their Lips: Desire between Women in Irigaray, Brontë, and Eliot. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994 [Review by Carrie Watterson].

Thompson, Nicola Diane. Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. [Review by Jacqueline Banerjee.]

Waldman, Suzanne B. The Demon and the Damozel: Dynamics of Desire in the Works of Christina Rossetti and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009 [Review by Kathleen O'Neill Sims].

Exhibitions

Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920. London: Tate Britain, 16 May - 13 October 2024, and book edited by Tabitha Barber, Pbk. London: Tate Publishing, 2024. [Review by Laurent Bury].

Tate Britain's Queer British Art (2017). [Review by George P. Landow].


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