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The Rise of the Woman Poet: The Anxiety of Authorship in Thomas Hardy’s “An Imaginative Woman”

This article examines Ella Marchmill, the protagonist of Thomas Hardy’s “An Imaginative Woman” (1893), as an embodiment of the anxiety of authorship to explore her artistic aspirations and the narrative strategies for confronting and overcoming anxieties surrounding female authorship in the Victorian era. Set in the fi...