Angelique Richardson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Exeter University.
UNEDITED UK REVIEW: "
Review from previous edition One of the most challenging and original studies I have come across for a long time."--
John CareyUNEDITED UK REVIEW: "...an illuminating examination of the ways in which feminist writers incorporated eugenics and notions of rational reproduction into fiction in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."--
Lara Marks, Medical HistoryUNEDITED UK REVIEW: "beautifully written and meticulously argued"--
Naomi Hetherington, Textual PracticeUNEDITED UK REVIEW: "Richardson's highlighting of the diverse ways in which love was constructed is compelling... elegantly and cogently brings together a wide range of eugenic and anti-eugenic sources and thinkers."--
Lucy Delap, Women's History ReviewUNEDITED UK REVIEW: "Swiftly establishes itself as a very significant contribution to the expanded field of New Woman scholarship... of Grand, of the feminism of the period and of the cultural history of eugenics itself."--
Carolyn Burdett, Women: A Cultural ReviewUNEDITED UK REVIEW: "Richardson enriches our understanding of the connections between feminist thought and Victorian biological science."--
Chris Waters, History Workshop JournalUNEDITED UK REVIEW: "a very well-written and thoughtful piece of scholarship that successfully combines historical analysis and literary criticism. It is a welcome and important contribution to the cultural study of British eugenics and early feminism and, crucially, to the relationship between the two."--
Nadja Durbach, H-NetUNEDITED UK REVIEW: "Richardson provides a valuably warts-and-all history of how feminism intersected with biological racism and hereditary elitism. As a result, this is a genuinely important contribution to the history of British feminism."--
John Waller, British Journal for the History of ScienceUNEDITED UK REVIEW: "A finely organized and superbly researched study which significantly extends our knowledge of a literary cadre."--
Roger Ebbatson, Thomas Hardy Journal"This is a book which deserves a wide audience; while it has long been required reading
for scholars working in the field, its paperback reissue will now make it more accessible to students, including undergraduates, whose understanding of this critical and complex period will be much enriched by Richardson's careful and nuanced study." --
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