Welcome to the 19CWWW, a site for the study of 19th-century women writers. Most of the writers looked at are American, though not all, and often they are unusual and interesting writers to look at.

The Victorian Women Writers Project, a site devoted to women writers of Great Britain in the 19th century.

See also the Modernism Timeline, 1890-1940

Jane Austen

Sketch of Jane Austen

William Blake

Some of Blake's visual art.

George Gordon, Lord Byron

John William Waterhouse has an interesting 1893 La Belle Dame Sans Merci.

John Clare

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

S. T. Coleridge Home Page

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851)

The French painter Jules Breton has a beautiful 1884 painting called The Song of the Lark, which might be of interest.

See also Mary Wollstonecraft's full text of The Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. Mary Wollstonecraft lived from 1759 to 1797.

John Keats (1795-1821)

. . . of possible interest for somebody reading "Ode on a Grecian Urn" might be the painting Betrothed by the English painter John Willian Godward (1861-1922).

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

• Lewis Carrol's Alice Books
• Charles Dodgson - photographer
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Project Gutenberg)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Carroll: Alice In Wonderland

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The painter John William Waterhouse has a few works that might be of interest to anybody reading "Ulysses," including the 1891 Ulysses and the Sirens and Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses.

• George Frederick Watts' Sir Galahad
• James Archer's The Death of Arthur.
• William Holman Hunt's Arthurian 1889-92 The Lady of Shallot
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti's 1864 How Sir Gallahad, Sir Bors and Sir Percival Were Fed with the Sanc Grael; But Sir Percival's Sister Died by the Way
• Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones's
  • 1858 The Knight's Farewell
  • 1862 stained-glass work designed by Burne-Jones called The Wedding of Sir Tristram. At the bottom is written, "How Sir Tristram was banished by King Mark and how he came into Brittany and did many great / deeds for King Howell of Brittany who gave him to wife his daughter Isoude Les Blanches Mains."
  • 1874 The Beguiling of Merlin
  • interesting 1881-98 The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon, which has more of a medieval look to it than James Archer's.
• the Pre-Raphaelite William Morris was very interested in Arthurian themes and painted, among other things,
  • the 1858 Queen Guenevere, finished by Rosetti and Madox Brown
  • a more medieval-looking detail of the 1890 Vision of the Holy Grail, finished by Edward Burne-Jones
• Walter Crane also has Arthurian work - in particular an illustration for a 19th-century version of Spenser's The Faerie Queene. Crane's illustration is called King Arthur and the Giant
• John William Waterhouse, who was very active in the 1880s and 1890s, including
  • the very well-known 1888 The Lady of Shallot
  • and another The Lady of Shallot, done in 1894
  • the 1916 "I Am Half Sick of Shadow" Said the Lady of Shalott
  • the 1916 Tristram and Isolde

Rudyard Kipling

Comte de Lautreamont

Thomas Hardy

. . . of possible interest might be the the Faggott Carriers by the French painter Jean Francois Millet.

Wilkie Collins

Oscar Wilde

. . . of possible interest might be the 1876 painting Salome by the French painter Gustave Moreau.

William Butler Yeats

. . . of possible interest might be the image of the 1895 mahogany bas-relief by the French artist George Lacombe.

Robert Browning

. . . of possible interest might be some paintings by Fra Filippo Lippi, Italian painter (1406-1469).

Victoriana: Resources for Victorian Living, which is a starting point for lots of interesting sites, some commerical and some not.

Introduction to a Victorian Woman's World, by Zsuzsa Sztaray.

Godey's Lady's Book Online Home Page. Godey's Lady's Book was a popular American periodical for women. It has lots of images of fashions as well as information about people's domestic lives.

The Pre-Raphaelites

A list of artists born and active in the nineteenth century. The site includes a number of interesting works, like

• a detail from William Powell Frith's 1862 The Railway Station
• Ford Maddox Brown's 1852 The Pretty Baa-Lambs, an interesting picture of sheep.
• Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, who did much of his work in the 1880s and 1890s.
• William Holman Hunt's
  • interesting 1850 A Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary from the Persecution of the Druids
  • 1852 On English Coasts
• a number of paintings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (see his work listed also among the Arthurian links under Tennyson, above)
• another Pre-Raphaelite, Sir John Everett Millais
• several paintings and statues by Lord Leighton Frederic, who also worked in the 1880s and 1890s, when he did the amazing 1895 Flaming June
• a number of paintings by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (see his work listed also among the Arthurian links under Tennyson, above)
• the Pre-Raphaelite William Morris (see his work listed also among the Arthurian links under Tennyson, above)
• a really interesting 1859 drawing by Charles Farrar, called Practicing Her Lesson, showing a young woman practicing her piano (at least I think it's a piano; it could be a spinet?)
• The French Claude Oscar Monet painted a number of successful works in the 1880s and 1890s, including the 1899 The Waterlily Pond.
• John William Waterhouse, who was very active in the 1880s and 1890s, painted some Arthurian works as well as the following:
  • the 1886 The Magic Circle
  • the 1898 Ariadne
  • the 1911 The Sorceress, interesting because, although the pensive sorceress is more classical than medieval, she's got a book.
  • the 1916 medieval-looking The Enchanted Garden
• Midsummer Eve by Edward Robert Hughes
• the Pre-Raphaelite The Accolade by Edmund Blair Leighton
• two paintings by Evelyn De Morgan which treat medieval or Arthurian themes but which don't look a thing like the Pre-Raphaelites:
  • Port After Stormy Seas - Spenser's Faerie Queene
  • Our Lady of Peace
• Albert Joseph Moore's 1877 Sapphires, interesting for somebody thinking about the Victorians and post-colonialism.
• William Logsdail's 1888 St.-Martin-in-the-Field, a famous London site, showing a flower girl
• a 1901 painting called The Charge by Andre Victor Edouard Devambez (1867-1944)

The Stock Solution - Vintage Art & Photography, a site that has some interesting 19th-century photographs and illustrations.

Magic - Robinson. The person who wrote this Web page is interested in stage magic trick, and he has information about a Victorian magic artist.