News of Members

News of Members91 Munich, Adrienne Auslander. Andromeda's Chains: Gender and Interpretation in Victorian Literature and Art. New York: Columbia UP, 1989. xii + 222. $14.00 US (paper). O'Brien, Patrick K. and Roland Quinault, eds. The Industrial Revolution and British Society. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993. xii + 295. $56.95 US (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Shannon, Richard. The Age of Disraeli 1868-1881: the Rise of Tory Democracy. New York: Longman, 1992. vii + 445. Shillingsburg, Peter L. Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W.M. Thackeray. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1992. viii + 301. Stephens, John Russell. The Profession of the Playwright: British Theatre 18001900 . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992. xix +254. Tennyson, Lord Alfred. Selected Poems. New York: Dover P, 1992. viii + 94. $1.00 US (paper). Turner, Michael R. Victorian Parlour Poetry: An Annotated Anthology. New York: Dover P, 1992. xxi + 325. $7.95 US (paper). Waller, Margaret. The Male Malady: Fictions of Impotence in the French Romantic Novel. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1993. 229. Wollstonecraft, Mary. Political Writings: A Vindication of the Rights of Men, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, A Historical and Moral View of the French. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1993. xxxii + 411. $65.00 CAN (cloth); $24.95 CAN (paper). NEWS OF MEMBERS CHRIS HOSGOOD, University of Lethbridge, published "A 'Brave and Daring Folk'?: Shopkeepers and Trade Associational Life in Victorian and Edwardian Britain" in Journal of Social History 26.2 (1992): 285-308. Now working on 'a social history of shopping in England, 1800-1914', he would appreciate help in tracking down any literary references to shopping in this period. KATE LAWSON, University of Toronto, has recently published "Madness and Grace: Grace Poole's name and her Role in Jane Eyre" in ELN: English Language Notes 30:1 (Sept. 1992) 46-50. MAVIS REIMER delivered a paper, "Worlds of Girls: Girls' School Stories and Victorian Feminism," at the University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities in March 1993. BETSY COGGER REZELMAN, St. Lawrence University, presented a paper, "The English School in Peril: the late Victorian Art World's Defense and Counter 92Victorian Review Offense" at the Australian Victorian Studies Association annual meeting in February 1993 in Auckland, New Zealand. She is currently working on selected Newlyn School artists and the Anglo-Australian Society of Artists. SHARON SMULDERS, University of Lethbridge, has published "Feminism, Pacifism and the Ethics of War: The Politics and Poetics of Alice Meynell's War Verse." English Literature in Transition 36 (1993): 159-177 and "Woman's Enfranchisement in Christina Rossetti's Poetry." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 34 (Winter 1992): 568-588. GLENNIS STEPHENSON, University of Stirling, has recently published Nineteenth Century Stories by Women (Broadview Press, 1991). AVRIL TORRENCE, Mount Royal College, is working on 'The People's Voice: The Role of Audience in the Popular Poems of Longfellow and Tennyson." M.G. WIEBE, Queen's University, notes that Benjamin Disraeli Letters, Volume Five, 1848-51, (University of Toronto) is currently in press. ...