Paradise Remade: Victorian Women, Religious Poetry, and the Uses of Heaven

Authors

  • F. Elizabeth Gray

Keywords:

religious poetry, women writers, religion, heaven, Victorian women, gender

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2020-06-11

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Gray, F. E. (2020). Paradise Remade: Victorian Women, Religious Poetry, and the Uses of Heaven. Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, 11(1), 23-40. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/AJVS/article/view/13931