Description: This important collection contains new readings of the prose works of nineteenth-century Irish women. The contributors, a wide-ranging group of international scholars, place this writing in new contexts and through these rediscovered women's literary perspectives offer a fresh view of the nineteenth century. Among the authors examined are: Elizabeth Hamilton, Lady Blessington, Selina Bunbury, Mrs. Hungerford, M.E. Francis, Lily McManus, Sommerville and Ross.
Brief description: Heidi Hansson is Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Umea University, Sweden, and is author of Romance Revived: Postmodern Romances and the Tradition (Uppsala, 1998).
Review Quotes: "Essays by Irish and Swedish scholars on such writers as Lady Blessington, Elizabeth Hamilton, and Margaret Hungerford."