Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840–1920

Gemma Goodman, Charlotte Mathieson

Introduction: Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840–1920, Gemma Goodman, Charlotte Mathieson; Chapter 1 Women in the Field, Roger Ebbatson; Chapter 2 ‘Between Two Civilizations’: George Sturt’s Constructions of Loss and Change in Village Life, Barry Sloan; Chapter 3 At Work And At Play: Charles Lee’s Cynthia in the West, Gemma Goodman; Chapter 4 ‘Going Out, Going Alone’: Modern Subjectivities in Rural Scotland, 1900–21, Samantha Walton; Chapter 5 ‘Drowned Lands’: Charles Kingsley’s Hereward the Wake and the Masculation of the English Fens, Lynsey McCulloch; Chapter 6 ‘Wandering Like a Wild Thing’: Rurality, Women and Walking in George Eliot’s Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss, Charlotte Mathieson; Chapter 7 ‘I Never Liked Long Walks’: Gender, Nature and Jane Eyre’s Rural Wandering, Katherine F. Montgomery; Chapter 8 Gertrude Jekyll: Cultivating the Gendered Space of the Victorian Garden for Professional Success, Christen Ericsson-Penfold; Chapter 9 From England to Eden: Gardens, Gender and Knowledge in Virginia Woolf’s the Voyage Out, Karina Jakubowicz; Chapter 10 The Transnational Rural in Alicia Little’s My Diary in a Chinese Farm, Eliza S. K. Leong;