Declining to Die: Anorexia Nervosa and the Nineteenth-Century Female Poet

Authors

  • Kelly Stephens

Keywords:

poetry, poet, nineteenth-century, anorexia, women poets

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2020-06-11

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Stephens, K. (2020). Declining to Die: Anorexia Nervosa and the Nineteenth-Century Female Poet. Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, 1(1), 97-107. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/AJVS/article/view/13308