Anna Jameson: Victorian, feminist, woman of letters

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Contents: Introduction 'A silent existence': women and biography The riddle of history: unhistorical women Writing Romeo out: rereading Shakespeare's women 'Only a traveller's tale': gendered discourse in professional travel writing Metamorphosed and translated: interpreting the terra incognita Invading the house of Titian: the colonisation of Italian art Alien aesthetics and the representation of women 'Throwing down the partition walls': feminist dialectics and professional work for women Locations of the major manuscript collections Bibliography Works cited.