Inclusive, cutting-edge essay collection by leading scholars on Victorian women poets and their diverse poetic forms and identities.

List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Chronology of publications and events, compiled by Sofia Prado Huggins; 1. Introduction Linda K. Hughes; Part I. Form and the Senses: 2. Genres Monique R. Morgan; 3. Prosody Meredith Martin; 4. Haunted by voice Elizabeth Helsinger; 5. Floating worlds: wood engraving and women's poetry Lorraine Janzen Kooistra; 6. Embodiment and touch Jason R. Rudy; Part II. Women's Poetry in the World: 7. Publishing and reception Alexis Easley; 8. Transatlanticism, transnationality, and cosmopolitanism Alison Chapman; 9. Dialect, region, class, work Kirstie Blair; 10. Politics, protest, interventions: beyond a poetess tradition Marjorie Stone; 11. Religion and spirituality Charles Laporte; Part III. Nurturance and Contested Naturalness: 12. Children's poetry Laurie Langbauer and Beverly Taylor; 13. Marriage, motherhood, and domesticity Emily Harrington; 14. Sexuality Jill Ehnenn; 15. Poets of style: poetries of asceticism and excess Ana Parejo Vadillo; Part IV. Reading Victorian Women's Poetry: 16. Distant reading and Victorian women's poetry Natalie M. Houston; Afterword. Nineteenth-century women's poetry in the field of vision Isobel Armstrong; Further reading; Appendix. Poets' biographies.