Martha Vicinus
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- PhD English Columbia University
- Masters English Columbia University
- Bachelors English Vassar College
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Martha Vicinus is an American scholar of English literature and Women's studies. She serves as the Eliza M. Mosher Distinguished University Professor of English, Women's Studies, and History at the University of Michigan. Prior to coming to the University of Michigan, Vicinus was a faculty member in the English Department at Indiana University from 1968 to 1982. She has written several books about Victorian women as well as gender and sexuality. She earned a PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1968.
Martha Vicinus's Published Works
Published Works
- Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past (1989) (373)
- Independent Women: Work and Community for Single Women 1850-1920 (1985) (331)
- "They Wonder to Which Sex I Belong": The Historical Roots of the Modern Lesbian Identity (1992) (143)
- A Widening Sphere: Changing Roles of Victorian Women (1979) (102)
- "Helpless and Unfriended": Nineteenth-Century Domestic Melodrama* (1981) (101)
- The Industrial Muse: A Study of Nineteenth-Century British Working-Class Literature (1976) (95)
- Suffer and Be Still: Women in the Victorian Age@@@A Widening Sphere: Changing Roles of Victorian Women (1982) (89)
- Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928 (2004) (79)
- Lesbian History: All Theory and No Facts or All Facts and No Theory? (1994) (64)
- The Victorian Music Hall: Culture, Class and Conflict (1996) (63)
- Distance and Desire: English Boarding-School Friendships (1984) (53)
- Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age (2008) (38)
- Sexuality and Power: A Review of Current Work in the History of Sexuality (1982) (29)
- Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School: The Emergence and Consolidation of an Educational Ideology , by J. A. Mangan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981). (1986) (26)
- Educate, Agitate, Organize: 100 Years of Fabian Socialism (1986) (24)
- "One Life to Stand beside Me": Emotional Conflicts in First-Generation College Women in England (1982) (23)
- Revolutions , Universals , and Sexual Categories (2009) (20)
- Lesbian Subjects: A Feminist Studies Reader (1996) (19)
- The Conscience of the Victorian State (1978) (18)
- Lesbian Perversity and Victorian Marriage: The 1864 Codrington Divorce Trial (1997) (17)
- Victorian Masculinity and the Angel in the House (2013) (13)
- A Study of Victorian Prostitution and Venereal Disease (2013) (12)
- The History of Lesbian History (2012) (11)
- The Nineteenth-Century Women: Her Cultural and Physical World. (1979) (11)
- "A Legion of Ghosts": Vernon Lee (1856-1935) and the Art of Nostalgia (2004) (11)
- The Industrial Muse. A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Literature. (1976) (8)
- Broadsides of the industrial North (1975) (7)
- Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters (2002) (7)
- BOOK REVIEW: Barry Reay.WATCHING HANNAH: SEXUALITY, HORROR AND BODILY DE-FORMATION IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND. London: Reaktion Books, 2002, 22.00, and Diane Atkinson.LOVE & DIRT: THE MARRIAGE OF ARTHUR MUNBY & HANNAH CULLWICK. London: Macmillan, 2003. (2004) (6)
- "Sister Souls": Bernard Berenson and Michael Field (Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper) (2005) (6)
- Dynamics of the Pictured Page: Representing the Nation in the Illustrated London News (review) (1999) (5)
- Laocoöning in rome: harriet hosmer and romantic friendship (2003) (5)
- : Women and Fiction: Feminism and the Novel, 1880-1920. . Patricia Stubbs. (1982) (5)
- BOOK REVIEW: Peter W. Sinnema.DYNAMICS OF THE PICTURED PAGE: REPRESENTING THE NATION IN THEILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1998. (1999) (5)
- The Economics of the British Stage, 1800-1914 (review) (2002) (5)
- Working-Class Women in Britain, 1890-1914 (2013) (5)
- Telling lives in science: ‘Tactful organising and executive power’: biographies of Florence Nightingale for girls (1996) (4)
- The Lesbian Muse and Poetic Identity, 1889–1930 (2015) (4)
- Liberty, a Better Husband: Single Women in America: The Generations of 1780-1840. Lee Virginia Chambers-Schiller (1986) (4)
- Normalizing Female Friendship (2007) (3)
- Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism (2008) (3)
- "Happy Times ... If You Can Stand It": Women Entertainers during the Interwar Years in England (1979) (3)
- Advisory editors (2001) (2)
- The Single Woman: Social Problem or Social Solution? (2010) (2)
- Faun Love: Michael Field and Bernard Berenson (2009) (2)
- A Widening Sphere (Routledge Revivals) : Changing Roles of Victorian Women (2013) (2)
- Book Review:Bedside Seductions: Nursing and the Victorian Imagination, 1830-1880 Catherine Judd (1999) (2)
- Sexual Histories, Sexual Politics (1992) (1)
- The Study of Nineteenth Century British Working Class Poetry. (1971) (1)
- Sentimental Realism: Poverty and the Ethics of Empathy, 1832-1867 (2008) (1)
- Fictions of British Decadence: High Art, Popular Writing and the Fin de Siècle, and: Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics (review) (2007) (1)
- The Critic as Adversary (1975) (0)
- patricia pulham. Art and the Transitional Object in Vernon Lee's Supernatural Tales. (2009) (0)
- Masculine Faculty, Women's Temperament: Victorian Women's Quest for Work and Personal Fulfillment (1987) (0)
- Virginia Woolf: The Ironic Feminist (2005) (0)
- Editors board (2000) (0)
- Book Review:The Sound of Our Own Voices: Women's Study Clubs, 1860-1910 Theodora Penny Martin (1988) (0)
- Editorial board (2001) (0)
- "Diving into the Wreck": A History of Our Own (1978) (0)
- Dagmar Kift. The Victorian Music Hall: Culture, Class and Conflict. Translated by Roy Kift. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1996. Pp. x, 244. $54.95 (1999) (0)
- Celibate Marriages (2014) (0)
- BOOK REVIEW: William M. Kuhn.HENRY AND MARY PONSONBY: LIFE AT THE COURT OF QUEEN VICTORIA. London: Duckworth, 2002. (2003) (0)
- Raphael Samuel (ed.), Miners, Quarrymen and Saltworkers. London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977. xvi + 363 pp. 30 plates. £6.50. (1979) (0)
- Book Review:Silent Sisterhood: Middle Class Women in the Victorian Home Patricia Branca (1976) (0)
- Women and the Theatre: Economics, Myth, and Metaphor (1992) (0)
- Reformers and Radicals (1986) (0)
- Reviews of Books:Women Alone: Spinsters in England 1660-1850 Bridget Hill (2002) (0)
- “Ennobling Genius: Writing Victorian Romantic Friendship,” provides an overview of where and in what modes romantic friendship occurred (2009) (0)
- Dorothea or Jane? The Dilemmas of Early Feminist Criticism (2018) (0)
- Sexual Categories (0)
- Contents of Volume 36 (1997) (0)
- Sharon relations between women. Between Women questions a paradigm (2016) (0)
- Suffer and Be Still (Routledge Revivals) : Women in the Victorian Age (2013) (0)
- Editorial board (2002) (0)
- Michael Field and Their World, edited by Margaret D. Stetz and Cheryl A. Wilson‘Michael Field’: Poetry, Aestheticism and the Fin de Siècle, by Marion Thain (2008) (0)
- Sandra Berman, ed. Fit Work for Women . New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979. 201 pp. (1980) (0)
- Editorial board (2001) (0)
- BOOK REVIEW: Tracy C. Davis.THE ECONOMICS OF THE BRITISH STAGE, 1800-1914, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000, (2002) (0)
- Watching Hannah: Sexuality, Horror and Bodily De-formation in Victorian England, and: Love & Dirt: The Marriage of Arthur Munby & Hannah Cullwick (review) (2004) (0)
- Venice and the Cultural Imagination: ‘This Strange Dream Upon the Water’ ed. by Michael O’Neill, Mark Sandy, and Sarah Wootton (review) (2014) (0)
- t. d. olverson. Women Writers and the Dark Side of Late-Victorian Hellenism. (2012) (0)
- Women Alone (Book) (2002) (0)
- Michael Field and Their World, and: 'Michael Field': Poetry, Aestheticism and the Fin de Siècle (review) (2008) (0)
- Landscapes of Decadence: Literature and Place at the Fin de Siècle by Alex Murray (review) (2017) (0)
- Homosexuality In Renaissance And Enlightenment England Literary Representations In Historical Context | live.csdl.edu.vn (2022) (0)
- stefano evangelista. British Aestheticism and Ancient Greece: Hellenism, Reception, Gods in Exile. (2010) (0)
- BOOK REVIEW: Kerry Powell.WOMEN AND VICTORIAN THEATRE.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. (1998) (0)
- Hollis Patricia. Ladies Elect: Women in English Local Government, 1865–1914. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press. 1987. Pp. xx, 533. $74.00. (1988) (0)
- Victorian Secrecy: Economies of Knowledge and Concealment (review) (2012) (0)
- BOOK REVIEW: Alice Domurat Dreger.HERMAPHRODITES AND THE MEDICAL INVENTION OF SEX.Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1998. (1999) (0)
- Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex (review) (2000) (0)
- William A. Peniston. Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris. (Haworth Gay and Lesbian Studies.) New York: Haworth Press. 2004. Pp. xi, 258. Cloth $49.95, paper $24.95 (2007) (0)
- Language and class in Victorian England. : K.C. Phillipps (The Languages Library.) Basil Blackwood, Oxford, 1984. x + 190 pp. (1986) (0)
- Advisory Board (2000) (0)
- The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture, and: The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1830-1914 (review) (2011) (0)
- : Victims of Convention. . Jean E. Kennard. ; Communities of Women: An Idea in Fiction. . Nina Auerbach. (1978) (0)
- Response (2009) (0)
- Editorial board (2001) (0)
- Leila J. Rupp, Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women (2010) (0)
- America and the British Imaginary in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Literature (review) (2012) (0)
- The Making of Victorian Sexuality. By Michael Mason (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. 338pp. $25.00) and The Making of Victorian Sexual Attitudes. By Michael Mason (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 256pp. $29.95) (1995) (0)
- Richard D. Altick. The Shows of London. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1978. Pp. 533. $35.00 (1979) (0)
- The Women of England in a Century of Social Change, 1815-1914: A Select Bibliography (2013) (0)
- One Sex Fits All (1992) (0)
- G. W. M. Reynolds: Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Politics and the Press (review) (2009) (0)
- Editorial board (2000) (0)
- Henry and Mary Ponsonby: Life at the Court of Queen Victoria (review) (2003) (0)
- Dale A. Johnson. Women in English Religion 1700-1925 . (Studies in Women and Religion 10.) Lewiston, N.Y. 14092. The Edwin Mellen Press. 1983. Pp. x, 353. $49.95. (1984) (0)
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