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Charlotte Mew (1869 - 1928)
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 Disorderly
Conduct : Visions of Gender in Victorian America by
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
This first collection
of essays by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, one of the leading
historians of women, is a landmark in women's studies. Focusing on
the "disorderly conduct" women and some men used to
break away from the Victorian Era's rigid class and sex roles, it
examines the dramatic changes in male-female relations, family
structure, sex, social custom, and ritual that occurred as
colonial America was transformed by rapid industrialization.
Included are two now classic essays on gender relations in
19th-century America, "The Female World of Love and Ritual:
Relations Between Women in Nineteenth-Century America" and
"The New Woman as Androgyne: Social Order and Gender Crisis,
1870-1936," as well as Smith-Rosenberg's more recent work, on
abortion, homosexuality, religious fanatics, and revisionist
history.
Throughout Disorderly Conduct, Smith-Rosenberg
startles and convinces, making us re-evaluate a society we thought
we understood, a society whose outward behavior and inner
emotional life now take on a new meaning.
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Excerpt:
Charlotte Mary Mew, esteemed by Siegfried
Sassoon, and Ezra Pound was born in London on November 15, 1869.
She took her own life on March 24, 1928. Haunted by unrequited
passion and tormented by fears of madness she, nevertheless,
produced poems of unique beauty and passion. Although her life was
lived for the most part in poverty and despair she was still
recognized by Vita Sackville West as a poetess of distinction.
Virginia Wolff called her the greatest living poetess, and
Marianne Moore, a quarter of a century after her death, considered
her work 'above praise.' Thomas Hardy accorded her extraordinary
praise, and others believed she approached poetic genius...
This site includes some examples of Charlotte
Mew's poetry.
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From Sappho.com
Excerpt:
Charlotte Mew, born in London, was one of the
last poets of the Victorian era. While she did not write poetry
with overt lesbian themes, preferring to keep the speaker
ambigious or male, she clearly loved and preferred women. She
never married and assumed a persona traditionally seen as
masculine, wearing tailored men's clothing, and keeping her hair
short. She traveled alone, used strong language, and smoked. While
her refusal to bend to society's role for women would seem to bode
well, her life was full of misfortune, and she never seemed to
connect with a lesbian community of her time, leaving her feeling
isolated and disappointed...
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