CORNELIA D.J. PEARSALLUneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian
England (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1988), 1-6.
31 Webster's "Circe" is reprinted in Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology, eds.
Leighton and Reynolds, 428-33, and in Nineteenth-Century Women Poets,
eds. Armstrong and Bristow with Sharrock, eds., 591-9.
32 Leighton, Victorian Women Poets: Writing against the Heart, 193-95.
33 Leighton, Victorian Women Poets: Writing against the Heart, 195.
34 While Levy herself committed suicide, one would want to avoid attaching the
statements of this speaker too directly to the poet. The genre in which she chose
to explore these sentiments, the dramatic monologue, demands that some
distance be assumed between the poet and the poem's speaking subject.
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