British Women Writers and the Reception of Ancient Egypt, 1840-1910

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Focusing on British women writers' knowledge of ancient Egypt, Molly Youngkin shows how British women writers' encounters with textual and visual representations of ancient Egyptian women such as Hathor, Isis, and Cleopatra influenced how British women represented their own desired emancipation in novels, poetry, drama, romances, and fictional treatises. She argues that canonical women writers such as Florence Nightingale and George Eliot - and less canonical figures such as Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper (who wrote poetry and drama together under the name 'Michael Field') and Elinor Glyn (best known for turning her controversial romances into successful films) - incorporated their knowledge of ancient Egyptian women's cultural power in only a limited fashion when presenting their visions for emancipation. Often, they represented ancient Greek women or Italian Renaissance women rather than ancient Egyptian women, since Greek and Italian cultures were more familiar and less threatening to their British audience.