in:
Women's writing
Wallingford:
2008
,
157 - 168 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Sussex, Lucy |
| In: | Women's writing |
| Jahr: | 2008 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Beschreibung: | |
| This essay explores Ellen (Mrs Henry) Wood as a biographical subject. In the absence of a full-scale modern biography, understanding Wood is effectively hampered by the major source of information on her life, the 1894 Memorials by her son Charles. His intent was monumental rather than objective, creating a graven image of his mother as the ideal Victorian woman. In this article Charles Wood's contexts, genre affiliations and constraints are considered, particularly the notion of “True Womanhood” and the subgenre of Victorian Protestant hagiography. He can be shown to have “airbrushed” his mother and her visual image. However, a close reading of Charles Wood reveals chinks in the monument, which when added to the scant alternate witnesses and Ellen Wood's own words, indicate a woman less ideal and rather more interesting than her son would ever admit | |
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