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Cover of Women's Studies

Women's Studies

Volume 31, Issue 1, Jan 2002
Pages 67-83

  • DOI: 10.1080/00497870212950
  • Print ISSN: 0049-7878
  • Online ISSN: 1547-7045

Lost Horizons: Rereading and Reclaiming Victorian Women Writers

Kingston University

"The girls of today cannot see themselves in Miss Yonge and that is their chief demand from literature" -Edith Sichel, Monthly Review, May 1901 The depths to which the reputation of popular conservative Victorian novelist, Charlotte Yonge, had sunk by the end of the nineteenth century are reflected in Oscar Wilde's reaction to being told a condemned man was reading one of Yonge's novels: "My heart was turned by the eyes of the doomed man, but if he reads The Heir of Redclyffe it's perhaps as well to let the law take its course" (Ellman 202).