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This collection places the life and work of Margaret Harkness at the heart of a broader consideration of the socially turbulent decades around the turn of the twentieth century in order to illuminate historical forms of women's political activism.
List of contents
Chronology of Margaret Harkness's life
Margaret Harkness's connections
Selected works by Margaret Harkness
Note on texts cited
Introduction: Rethinking Margaret Harkness's Significance in Political and Literary History
Lisa C. Robertson and Flore Janssen
Part I: Harkness's Life and Work
1. A Law unto Herself: the Solitary Odyssey of M. E. Harkness
Terry Elkiss
2. Absent Character: from Margaret Harkness to John Law
Tabitha Sparks
Part II: In Harkness's London
3. Walking Harkness's London
Nadia Valman
4. 'The Problem of Leisure/What to do for Pleasure': Women and Leisure Time in
A City Girl (1887) and
In Darkest London (1891)
Eliza Cubitt
5. The Vicissitudes of Victory: Margaret Harkness,
George Eastmont, Wanderer (1905), and the 1889 Dockworkers' Strike
David Glover
Part III: Harkness and Genre: Rethinking Slum Fiction
6. Soundscapes of the City in Margaret Harkness,
A City Girl (1887), Henry James,
The Princess Casamassima (1885-86), and Katharine Buildings, Whitechapel
Ruth Livesey
7. Margaret Harkness, Novelist: Social Semantics and Experiments in Fiction
Lynne Hapgood
8. 'Connie': Melodrama and Tory-Socialism
Deborah Mutch
Part IV: Personal Influences: Harkness and her Contemporaries
9. Socialism, Suffering, and Religious Mystery: Margaret Harkness and Olive Schreiner
Angharad Eyre
10. Margaret Harkness, W. T. Stead, and the Transatlantic Social Gospel Network
Helena Goodwyn
Part V: After London: Harkness's Life and Work in the Twentieth Century
11. Through the Mill: Margaret Harkness on Conjectural History and Utilitarian Philosophy
Lisa C. Robertson
12. Lasting Ties: Margaret Harkness, the Salvation Army, and A Curate's Promise (1921)
Flore Janssen
Index
About the author
Flore Janssen is a PhD candidate at Birkbeck, University of London
Lisa C. Robertson is a Post-Doctoral Associate at the University of Warwick
Summary
This collection places the life and work of Margaret Harkness at the heart of a broader consideration of the socially turbulent decades around the turn of the twentieth century in order to illuminate historical forms of women’s political activism. -- .
