Florence Marryat

Once dismissed as a "purveyor of dangerous inflammatory fiction," Florence Marryat has suffered a reputation as a trashy and formulaic novelist, unworthy of critical attention. / Critics have consistently overlooked the radicalism of her work, which confronts themes such as marital violence, single motherhood, and female sexuality. By gathering evi

About the author

Catherine Pope is a writer, publisher, and workshop facilitator. In 2014 she was awarded a PhD for her thesis on feminism in Florence Marryat's fiction. Since then, Catherine has contributed chapters on Marryat to a number of edited collections, including For Better, For Worse: Marriage in Victorian Novels (Routledge, 2017) and British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940 (Palgrave, 2018).

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Pope, Dr Catherine Pope, Pope Catherine
• Publisher: Edward Everett Root
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781911454632
• ISBN: 978-1-911454-63-2
• Series: Key Popular Women Writers; Key Popular Women Writers
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies