Clare Walker Gore
Biographic Data
| ID | 6535734 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clare Walker Gore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clare Walker |
| FAMILY NAME | Gore |
| SIGNATURE | GORE C W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2959-3239 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Thinking Back Through Her Mothers
Journal Article Thinking Back Through Her Mothers Get access Virginia Woolf and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers: Victorian Legacies and Literary Afterlives: by Anne Reus, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022, xii + 224 pp., £85 (hardback), ISBN 9781474485623 Clare Walker Gore Clare Walker Gore Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, UK E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of V…
Articulating bodies
Since the explosion of interest in disability studies as a new field of academic enquiry, Victorian fiction has proved fertile ground for those interested in the social and textual interpretation o
“Unbroken Health and a Spirit Almost Criminally Elastic”
This article examines how the autobiographies of Harriet Martineau and Margaret Oliphant represent the work of writing in relation to the domestic labour and familial duties that are gendered as “women’s work”. It argues that these texts register tension between two kinds of work that are in some sense understood as discontinuous and incompatible and that this tension is expressed through the writers’ depictions of their bodies. Harriet Martineau…
Everybody’s dear, Jane’
When Charlotte Brontë responded to G. H. Lewes’s praise of Jane Austen by disparaging Pride and Prejudice as ‘an accurate daguerrotyped portrait of a common-place face . . . but no glance of a bright vivid physiognomy – no open country – no fresh air’, she could hardly have anticipated that this would become one of the most-quoted judgements ever passed by one woman writer on another.1 It seems somewhat unfair to both that what was essentially a …
From ‘Afflicted Man’ to ‘Member of an Oppressed and Persecuted Race’
Romance’s Rival
The Additional Attraction of Affliction”
While there is never any serious doubt that Mr. Arabin, clergyman hero of Anthony Trollope's Barchester Towers (1857), is destined to marry our heroine, Eleanor Bold, there are moments in the novel when he is all but overcome by the charms of Signora Madeline Neroni, most beautiful and most amoral member of the rackety Stanhope family. Having spent her wicked youth in Italy, where her father has been taking an extended leave of absence from his c…
The Sensational Eliza Lynn Linton
Eliza Lynn Linton (1822–98) is one of those authors who are more often mentioned than read. Her novels are mostly out of print, but keen readers of Victorian literature may well know of her infamou
Two Feminist Classics
A Life More Ordinary
Writing from the Heart of the House
Carolyn Lambert offers a fascinating insight into Elizabeth Gaskell's writing life by giving the reader not a plan for one of her novels, but a plan of her house. Both Gaskell and her husband worke
Noble Lives
Miss Mulock has lately written a book which is not the less welcome because it is an anachronism. In it she unfolds the virtues of a crippled Earl, who nobly devotes his life to securing the happin
The Sensational Eliza Lynn Linton
Eliza Lynn Linton (1822–98) is one of those authors who are more often mentioned than read. Her novels are mostly out of print, but keen readers of Victorian literature may well know of her infamou
Noble Lives
Miss Mulock has lately written a book which is not the less welcome because it is an anachronism. In it she unfolds the virtues of a crippled Earl, who nobly devotes his life to securing the happin
Writing from the Heart of the House
Carolyn Lambert offers a fascinating insight into Elizabeth Gaskell's writing life by giving the reader not a plan for one of her novels, but a plan of her house. Both Gaskell and her husband worke
Noble Lives
Miss Mulock has lately written a book which is not the less welcome because it is an anachronism. In it she unfolds the virtues of a crippled Earl, who nobly devotes his life to securing the happin
Two Feminist Classics
A Life More Ordinary
The Sensational Eliza Lynn Linton
Eliza Lynn Linton (1822–98) is one of those authors who are more often mentioned than read. Her novels are mostly out of print, but keen readers of Victorian literature may well know of her infamou
Romance’s Rival
The Additional Attraction of Affliction”
While there is never any serious doubt that Mr. Arabin, clergyman hero of Anthony Trollope's Barchester Towers (1857), is destined to marry our heroine, Eleanor Bold, there are moments in the novel when he is all but overcome by the charms of Signora Madeline Neroni, most beautiful and most amoral member of the rackety Stanhope family. Having spent her wicked youth in Italy, where her father has been taking an extended leave of absence from his c…
From ‘Afflicted Man’ to ‘Member of an Oppressed and Persecuted Race’
Everybody’s dear, Jane’
When Charlotte Brontë responded to G. H. Lewes’s praise of Jane Austen by disparaging Pride and Prejudice as ‘an accurate daguerrotyped portrait of a common-place face . . . but no glance of a bright vivid physiognomy – no open country – no fresh air’, she could hardly have anticipated that this would become one of the most-quoted judgements ever passed by one woman writer on another.1 It seems somewhat unfair to both that what was essentially a …
“Unbroken Health and a Spirit Almost Criminally Elastic”
This article examines how the autobiographies of Harriet Martineau and Margaret Oliphant represent the work of writing in relation to the domestic labour and familial duties that are gendered as “women’s work”. It argues that these texts register tension between two kinds of work that are in some sense understood as discontinuous and incompatible and that this tension is expressed through the writers’ depictions of their bodies. Harriet Martineau…
Articulating bodies
Since the explosion of interest in disability studies as a new field of academic enquiry, Victorian fiction has proved fertile ground for those interested in the social and textual interpretation o
Thinking Back Through Her Mothers
Journal Article Thinking Back Through Her Mothers Get access Virginia Woolf and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers: Victorian Legacies and Literary Afterlives: by Anne Reus, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022, xii + 224 pp., £85 (hardback), ISBN 9781474485623 Clare Walker Gore Clare Walker Gore Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, UK E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of V…
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