Augusta Webster and The Social History of Myth

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Notes

¹Sections of this essay appeared in slightly different form in Shanyn Fiske, Heretical Hellenism: Women Writers, Ancient Greece, and the Victorian Popular Imagination (Athens: Ohio UP, 2008).

²For further, in-depth discussion of Victorian women's efforts to learn the classics and their unique relations with Greek and Roman texts, see Isobel Hurst's excellent study Victorian Women Writers and the Classics: The Feminine of Homer (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006).

³Please see the first chapter of Heretical Hellenism for an extended discussion of Medea's Victorian reincarnations. Edith Hall, Lorna Hardwick, Isobel Hurst, and Fiona Macintosh have also written excellent studies of nineteenth-century Medeas.