With Mathilde Blind: Late-Victorian Culture and the Woman of
Letters, James Diedrick offers a groundbreaking critical biography
of the German-born British poet Mathilde Blind (1841-1896)-a
freethinking radical feminist. Born to politically radical parents,
by the time she was thirty Blind had become a pioneering female
aesthete in a mostly male community of writers, painters, and
critics, including Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Morris, Ford
Madox Brown, William Michael Rossetti, and Richard Garnett. By the
1880s she was widely recognized for a body of writing that engaged
contemporary issues (such as the Woman Question, the forced
eviction of Scottish tenant farmers in the Highland Clearances, and
Darwin's evolutionary theory), and she subsequently emerged as a
prominent voice and indeed a leader among New Woman writers at the
end of the century, including Mona Caird, Rosamund Marriott Watson,
and Katharine Tynan. She also developed important associations with
leading male decadent writers of the fin de siecle, most notably
Oscar Wilde and Arthur Symons. Despite her extensive contributions
to Victorian debates on aesthetics, religion, nationhood,
imperialism, gender, and sexuality, however, Blind has yet to
receive the prominence she deserves in studies of the period. As
the first full-length biography of this trailblazing woman of
letters, Mathilde Blind underscores the importance of her poetry
and her critical writings (her work on Shelley, biographies of
George Eliot and Madame Roland, and her translations of Feuerbach
and Bashkirtseff) for the literature and culture of the fin de
siecle.
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