This comprehensive volume, the only anthology to give voice to so many excellent women poets of the nineteenth century, will fill a void in current Victorian literature collections. Victorian women poets have been constantly overshadowed by their male counterparts, but now Catherine Reilly has redressed the balance with this meticulously researched and richly varied anthology of poems by sixty-eight Victorian women. Alongside such famous names as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Bront and Christina Rossetti are dozens of fine but unfamiliar poets whose work touches on birth and death, love and friendship, family relationships, work and leisure, peace and war, nature and the seasons, the country and the town.Poems by sixty-eight Victorian women are included. The famous Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Bronte, Christina Rossetti, Mary Coleridge, George Eliot, Alice Meynell, and Olive Custance are here, as well as dozens of fine but lesser known poets. The poets' work and achievements are put into literary and historical context in the introduction and preface. Each poet's work is introduced by a detailed bibliographical note. Interspersed in the text are fifteen images of women by Victorian women artists.