Book contents
- Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Preface/Vorwort
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Entrée to the ‘Other’ Germany
- Chapter 2 Germany through a Female Lens
- Chapter 3 Networked Families in Germany
- Chapter 4 An Unbeliever in Germany
- Chapter 5 The Anglo–German Fiction of George Eliot and Jessie Fothergill
- Chapter 6 New Woman Travellers and Translators
- Chapter 7 An Anglo–German Expatriate–Citizen
- Chapter 8 Queer Borders
- Nachwort/Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Chapter 3 - Networked Families in Germany
Mary Howitt, Anna Mary Howitt, and Elizabeth Gaskell
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 June 2022
- Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Preface/Vorwort
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Entrée to the ‘Other’ Germany
- Chapter 2 Germany through a Female Lens
- Chapter 3 Networked Families in Germany
- Chapter 4 An Unbeliever in Germany
- Chapter 5 The Anglo–German Fiction of George Eliot and Jessie Fothergill
- Chapter 6 New Woman Travellers and Translators
- Chapter 7 An Anglo–German Expatriate–Citizen
- Chapter 8 Queer Borders
- Nachwort/Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Summary
Mary Howitt, Anna Mary Howitt, and Elizabeth Gaskell, who knew Jameson, extended her cross-cultural exchange across several genres left untouched by their precursor. Unlike Jameson, Howitt’s and Gaskell’s maternal roles were factors in their Anglo–German exchange. Mary Howitt authored a young adult novel set in Heidelberg (Which is the Wiser?) in which ethnoexocentrism is central to courtship. Another novella, Margaret von Ehrenberg, the Artist-Wife, drew upon her daughter Anna Mary’s experiences and writings as an art student in Munich; it addresses troubled marriage and the importance of professions for women. Anna Mary Howitt’s memoir An Art-Student in Munich is structured by the writer’s growth from narrow English national and religious identity to openness to Germans’ cultural, class, and religious differences, and by her movement from a marginalised foreign female art student to her acceptance as a German art student at the climactic artist’s ball. Gaskell adapts Anglo–German cultural exchange to probe the dangers posed by intercultural courtship and to innovate gender reversals in female and male characters in two short stories that draw on sensation fiction and German idyl.
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- Victorian Women Writers and the Other GermanyCross-Cultural Freedoms and Female Opportunity, pp. 55 - 86Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022