Prose by Victorian Women: An Anthology Book

	Foreword
	Introduction
I	Mary Russell Mitford	1
1	Our Village	5
2	Rosedale	15
3	Walks in the Country: The Wood	27
II	Harriet Martineau	33
4	Prison Discipline	37
5	Letter to the Deaf	51
6	Society in America
Sect. VI	Citizenship of People of Colour
Sect. VII	Political Non-Existence of Women	67
III	Lady Elizabeth Eastlake	77
7	Modern Painters	81
8	Photography	137
IV	George Eliot	167
9	Natural History of German Life: Riehl	173
10	The Modern Hep! Hep! Hep!	207
V	Frances Power Cobbe	231
11	What Shall We Do with Our Old Maids?	235
12	The Rights of Man and the Claims of Brutes	263
13	Wife-Torture in England	291
14	Schadenfreude	335
VI	Eliza Lynn Linton	351
15	The Girl of the Period	355
16	George Eliot	361
17	Nearing the Rapids	377
VII	Margaret Oliphant	387
18	The Literature of the Last Fifty Years	391
VIII	Isabella Bird Bishop	429
19	Letter XXVI from Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands	433
20	Letter XV from Unbeaten Tracks in Japan	439
IX	Helen Taylor	449
21	Women and Criticism	453
22	The Ladies' Petition	463
X	Anne Thackeray Ritchie	483
23	Heroines and Their Grandmothers	487
XI	Alice Brooke Bodington	505
24	The Importance of Race and Its Bearing on the "Negro Question"	507
XII	Edith Jemima Simcox	523
25	Autobiographies	527
26	Women's Work and Women's Wages	565
27	The Capacity of Women	583
XIII	Clementina Black	599
28	The Coercion of Trade Unions	603
29	What Is a Fair Wage?	613
30	The Dislike to Domestic Service	621
XIV	Mona Alison Caird	625
31	The Morality of Marriage	629
XV	Sarah Grand	655
32	The New Aspect of the Woman Question	659
33	The New Woman and the Old	667
XVI	Vernon Lee	677
34	Art and Life: I., III	681
35	Gospels of Anarchy	711