Gail Marshall : Shakespeare and Victorian Women (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth- Century Literature and Culture, 64). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. x + 207. Cloth £ 50.00.

• Paul Edmondson

This book represents a fresh study of the impact Shakespeare had on the lives and work of Victorian women. In so doing Marshall does not attempt to be exhaustive, but deals instead ‘with a number of women whose lives were shaped by their reading, viewing and acting [of] Shakespeare’ (p. 7). These include: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Helen Faucit, Fanny Kemble, Ellen Terry, Sarah Bernhardt, George Eliot, Anna Jameson, Marie Corelli, the ‘socialist radicals’ (p. 8) Eleanor Marx and Mathilde Blind, and (briefly) Christina Rossetti and Charlotte Brontë.

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