Abstract
Abstract Idealists agree that reality is somehow mental, holding, say, that reality comprises consciousness or spirit. Idealism can be developed in many different ways and, before the distinctive movement known as “British idealism” emerged, other idealisms were present in Britain. This chapter offers the first-ever study of female idealists in nineteenth-century Britain. It identifies six pertinent women, and focuses on three of them, exploring the idealist metaphysics of Constance Naden, Victoria Welby, and Arabella Buckley. It situates their idealisms in the context of Victorian metaphysics; shows that each developed a different kind of idealism, drawing on varied sources from Kant to Herbert Spencer; and contrasts their idealisms with one another.
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