Victorian Prose: An Anthology Book

	Chronological Table of Contents	ix
	Thematic Table of Contents	xiii
	Introduction	xvii
	Acknowledgments	xxiii
	A Note on the Texts	xxv
	from The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave (1831)	1
	"Slavery in Yorkshire" (1830)	9
	from The Wrongs of Woman (1843-4)	13
	from Sartor Resartus (1833-4)	21
	from Past and Present (1843)	28
	from The Women of England (1839)	53
	from review of Southey's Colloquies (1830)	59
	from Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864)	71
	Letters (1845)	87
	from Eastern Life, Present and Past (1848)	93
	from Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844)	101
	from The Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes Employed in the Cotton Manufacture in Manchester (1832)	107
	from "Conservative and Liberal Principles," speech at the Crystal Palace (1872)	115
	from The Subjection of Women (1869)	121
	from Autobiography (1873)
	from A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill (1855)	143
	from "Why Are Women Redundant?" (1862)	157
	from On the Origin of Species (1859)	165
	from review of Vanity Fair, Jane Eyre, and the 1847 Report of the Governesses' Benevolent Institution (1848)	175
	from "England's Mission" (1878)	183
	from Labour and the Poor, letter to the Morning Chronicle (1849)	189
	from Self-Help (1859)	199
	from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa (1857)	207
	from "The Chemistry of a Candle" (1850)	215
	from Prostitution (1857, 1870)	221
	Letters to George Henry Lewes (1847-50)	229
	from review of Shirley (1850)	235
	from Comte's Philosophy of the Sciences (1853)	241
	from "Traffic," lecture (1864); in The Crown of Wild Olive (1866)	247
	from "Of Queens' Gardens," lecture (1864); in Sesame and Lilies (1865)	259
	from journal entry on the Great Exhibition (1851)	267
	Letters to her daughter, the Princess Royal (1858, 1872)	270
	from "The Massacre of the Innocents!" (1859)	273
	Speech at the Mansion House (1850); in Prince Albert's Speeches (1857)	279
	from "Punch's Own Report of the Opening of the Great Exhibition" (1851)	283
	from "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists" (1856)	287
	from "Progress: Its Law and Cause" (1857)	295
	from "Cassandra," Suggestions for Thought (1860)	305
	from "A Day Amongst the Fans" (1863)	313
	Letters from Egypt and the Cape (1864, 1865)	319
	from "Woman as a Citizen of the State," The Duties of Women (1881)	325
	from Life of Frances Power Cobbe (1894)	329
	from Culture and Anarchy (1869, 1875)	337
	from "Literature and Science," Discourses in America (1885)	349
	from "Science and Culture," address (1880); in Science and Culture, and Other Essays (1881)	359
	from "Agnosticism and Christianity" (1889)	364
	from A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1857, 1858)	371
	Reasons for the Enfranchisement of Women (1866)	377
	from The Autobiography of Mrs M. O. W. Oliphant (1899)	385
	from "How We Live and How We Might Live" (1888)	393
	from Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873)	401
	from Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments (1907)	409
	"An Appeal Against Female Suffrage" (1889)	417
	from "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)	423
	from Travels in West Africa (1897)	439
	from "The Decadent Movement in Literature" (1893)	449
	Selected Bibliography	455