Valerie Sanders 
Eve’s Renegades [PDF ebook] 
Victorian Anti-Feminist Women Novelists

This study focuses on the work of four Victorian anti-feminist women writers – Eliza Lynn Linton, Charlotte M. Yonge, Mrs Humphry Ward, and Margaret Oliphant – examining their self-contradictory responses to the debate about women’s role in family life and society. Individual chapters review women’s anti-feminism from 1792-1850, and fresh readings of their best-known novels emphasize the inconsistencies of their masculine and feminine ideals.