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Article: Books Received.(Bibliography)
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- Victorian Newsletter
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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Adams, Kimberly VanEsveld. Our Lady of Victorian Feminism: The Madonna in the Work of Anna Jameson, Margaret Fuller, and George Eliot. Athens: Ohio UP, 2001. Pp. 299. $59.95 (cloth), $24.95 (paper). "This book focuses on three nineteenth-century women: Anna Jameson (1794-1860), the Anglo-Irish art historian; Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), the American Transcendentalist essayist; and Marian Evans (1819-1880), the English novelist and lapsed Evangelical, who wrote under the name George Eliot. All three, Protestants by background and feminists by conviction, are curiously and crucially linked by their use of the Madonna in arguments designed to empower women. They are not the ...