Irish Women's Writing, 1878–1922 : Advancing the Cause of Liberty

Providing an important intervention in contemporary Irish cultural-critical debate, this collection explores how Irish women writers exercised their political concerns and influence through their literary outputs during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- An Irish women of letters' banquet and a toast to the King -- Advancing the cause of liberty -- Then and now -- Notes -- 1 Works, righteousness, philanthropy, and the market in the novels of Charlotte Riddell -- Riddell, the Irish national tale, and the limits of Edgeworthian rationalism -- Moral realism and the 'fallen woman' -- Falling feudalism: Riddell's critique of Charles Lever's 'rollicking' -- Notes -- 2 'She's nothin' but a shadda': the politics of marriage in late Mulholland -- Notes -- 3 Nature, education, and liberty in The Book of Gilly by Emily Lawless -- Notes -- 4 Girls with 'go': female homosociality in L.T. Meade's schoolgirl novels -- Notes -- 5 'Breaking away': Beatrice Grimshaw and the commercial woman writer -- Notes -- 6 Women, ambition, and the city, 1890-1910 -- The city in Irish writing -- Rejecting the West -- Ambition, New Women, and the city -- Imposters in Paris -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- 7 'An Irish problem': bilingual manoeuvres in the work of Somerville and Ross -- Notes -- 8 'A bad master': religion, Jacobitism, and the politics of representation in Lady Gregory's The White Cockade -- Notes -- 9 'Old wine in new bottles'? Katharine Tynan, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, and George Wyndham -- Notes -- 10 'The blind side of the heart': Protestants, politics, and patriarchy in the novels of F.E. Crichton -- The Precepts of Andy Saul (1908) -- The Blind Side of the Heart (1915) -- Notes -- 11 'The Red Sunrise': gender, violence, and nation in Ella Young's vision of a new Ireland -- Druidess -- Poet -- Warrior -- Notes -- 12 Liberté, égalité, sororité: the poetics of suffrage in the work of Eva Gore-Booth and Constance Markievicz Front Matter Contents List of figures List of contributors Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Works, righteousness, philanthropy, and the market in the novels of Charlotte Riddell ‘She’s nothin’ but a shadda’: the politics of marriage in late Mulholland Nature, education, and liberty in The Book of Gilly by Emily Lawless Girls with ‘go’: female homosociality in L. T. Meade’s schoolgirl novels ‘Breaking away’: Beatrice Grimshaw and the commercial woman writer Women, ambition, and the city, 1890–1910 ‘An Irish problem’: bilingual manoeuvres in the work of Somerville and Ross ‘A bad master’: religion, Jacobitism, and the politics of representation in Lady Gregory’s The White Cockade ‘Old wine in new bottles’? Katharine Tynan, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, and George Wyndham ‘The blind side of the heart’: Protestants, politics, and patriarchy in the novels of F. E. Crichton ‘The Red Sunrise’: gender, violence, and nation in Ella Young’s vision of a new Ireland Liberté, égalité, sororité: the poetics of suffrage in the work of Eva Gore-Booth and Constance Markievicz Bibliography Index