Catherine Pope
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Catherine Pope's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
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Catherine Pope deposited “More like a woman stuck into boy’s clothes”: Sexual deviance in Florence Marryat’s Her Father’s Name in the group
Victorian Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoHer Father’s Name (1876) is one of Marryat’s most radical and intriguing novels, featuring Leona Lacoste, a cross-dressing heroine, and Lucilla Evans, a textbook hysteric who falls in love with her. For centuries, the diagnosis of ‘hysteria’ was conveniently applied to any woman who exhibited transgressive behaviour, whether it be through sexual…[Read more]
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Catherine Pope deposited “More like a woman stuck into boy’s clothes”: Sexual deviance in Florence Marryat’s Her Father’s Name in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoHer Father’s Name (1876) is one of Marryat’s most radical and intriguing novels, featuring Leona Lacoste, a cross-dressing heroine, and Lucilla Evans, a textbook hysteric who falls in love with her. For centuries, the diagnosis of ‘hysteria’ was conveniently applied to any woman who exhibited transgressive behaviour, whether it be through sexual…[Read more]
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Catherine Pope deposited “More like a woman stuck into boy’s clothes”: Sexual deviance in Florence Marryat’s Her Father’s Name in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoHer Father’s Name (1876) is one of Marryat’s most radical and intriguing novels, featuring Leona Lacoste, a cross-dressing heroine, and Lucilla Evans, a textbook hysteric who falls in love with her. For centuries, the diagnosis of ‘hysteria’ was conveniently applied to any woman who exhibited transgressive behaviour, whether it be through sexual…[Read more]
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Catherine Pope deposited Who Pays for the Butter? Florence Marryat and the Married Women’s Property Acts in the group
Victorian Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoWhereas many women writers were reticent on the issue of property, or vehemently opposed to improving the position of wives, Florence Marryat used her public platform to campaign for change. As such, her work forms an important contribution to our understanding of women and property in the nineteenth century. In this paper I discuss the ways in…[Read more]
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Catherine Pope deposited Who Pays for the Butter? Florence Marryat and the Married Women’s Property Acts in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoWhereas many women writers were reticent on the issue of property, or vehemently opposed to improving the position of wives, Florence Marryat used her public platform to campaign for change. As such, her work forms an important contribution to our understanding of women and property in the nineteenth century. In this paper I discuss the ways in…[Read more]
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Catherine Pope deposited Woman Against Woman – Geraldine Jewsbury vs Florence Marryat in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoFlorence Marryat (1833-99) was a novelist, editor, playwright, spiritualist, singer and actress. She wrote nearly seventy novels during her varied career, most of which were dismissed by critics but loved by her reading public. Much of the opprobrium aimed at her originated from fellow women authors such as Eliza Lynn Linton and Marie Corelli, but…[Read more]
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Catherine Pope deposited “More like a woman stuck into boy’s clothes”: Sexual deviance in Florence Marryat’s Her Father’s Name on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
Her Father’s Name (1876) is one of Marryat’s most radical and intriguing novels, featuring Leona Lacoste, a cross-dressing heroine, and Lucilla Evans, a textbook hysteric who falls in love with her.
For centuries, the diagnosis of ‘hysteria’ was conveniently applied to any woman who exhibited transgressive behaviour, whether it be through…[Read more]
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Catherine Pope deposited Who Pays for the Butter? Florence Marryat and the Married Women’s Property Acts on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
Whereas many women writers were reticent on the issue of property, or vehemently opposed to improving the position of wives, Florence Marryat used her public platform to campaign for change. As such, her work forms an important contribution to our understanding of women and property in the nineteenth century.
In this paper I discuss the ways in…[Read more]
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Catherine Pope's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
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Catherine Pope deposited Woman Against Woman – Geraldine Jewsbury vs Florence Marryat on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
Florence Marryat (1833-99) was a novelist, editor, playwright, spiritualist, singer and actress. She wrote nearly seventy novels during her varied career, most of which were dismissed by critics but loved by her reading public. Much of the opprobrium aimed at her originated from fellow women authors such as Eliza Lynn Linton and Marie Corelli,…[Read more]
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Catherine Pope's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago