Abstract
“She fought for Women: yet with women fought.” In this extract from his obituary of conservative Victorian novelist Eliza Lynn Linton (Queen, July 23, 1898), Walter Besant encapsulates profound contradictions in the lives and careers of Victorian women novelists regarding what the Victorians called the “woman question,” the ongoing Victorian discussion about woman's nature and societal role. This same duality is now evident among contemporary feminist critics working to reclaim forgotten Victorian female novelists. In effect fighting both for and with Victorian women writers, they often instead actually hinder their entrance into the canon.
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