Books by Francis O'Gorman

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years

These essays refute the notion that the 18th century was fashioned in a distinctly negative way by the Whigs. The contributors search out the subtler conceptions of interrelation, the hidden richness and complexity of the Victorians' settlement with the previous century.

For many years Ruskin has seemed, at best, a conservative thinker on gender roles. These essays challenge such assumptions, presenting a wide-ranging revaluation of Ruskin's place in relation to gender, and offering new perspectives on continuing debates on issues of gender - in the Victorian period, and in our own.