The Editors-in-Chief would like to thank Susan David Bernstein for the wonderful job she has done as Reviews Editor over the last five years. We wish her all the best with her new endeavors.

We would also like to honor the memory of Professor Linda Peterson. We are indebted to her for her insightful scholarship, her patient guidance, and her kindness to us as young scholars. We are very grateful for her support
Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies. She will be very missed.

Issue 11.2 (Summer 2015)
Special Issue:
Illustration and Gender: Drawing the Nineteenth Century

Guest Edited by Kate Holterhoff and Nicole Lobdell

Introduction

Kate Holterhoff and Nicole Lobdell, “Introduction

Articles

Nancy Marck Cantwell, “Waist Not, Want Not: The Corseted Body and Empire in Vanity Fair

Susan Walton, “Suitable Work for Women? Florence Claxton’s Illustrations for The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte Yonge

Adam Sonstegard, “Mary Hallock Foote: Reconfiguring The Scarlet Letter, Redrawing Hester Prynne

Patricia Smith Scanlan, “‘God-gifted girls’: The Rise of Women Illustrators in Late Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia

Reviews

Kimberly Rhodes, “Finding Feminist Art History in the Nineteenth Century.” Review of Temma Balducci and Heather Belnap Jensen’s Women, Femininity and Public Space in European Visual Culture, 1789-1914 and Hilary Fraser’s Women Writing Art History in the Nineteenth Century: Looking Like a Woman.

Ellen Bell, “Not Just a Pretty Picture.” Review of Paul Goldman and Simon Cooke’s Reading Victoiran Illustration, 1855-1875: Spoils of the Lumber Room.

Nancy Rose Marshall, “Brotherhood: Interrogating Pre-Raphaelite Manliness.” Review of Amelia Yeates and Serena Trowbridge’s Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities.

Veronica Alfano, “Gender and Lyric Intimacy at the Fin de Siècle.” Review of Emily Harrington’s Second Person Singular: Late Victorian Women Poets and the Bonds of Verse.

Laura Engel, “Wishful Telepathy: Austen’s Role as Romatic Advisor.” Review of Sarah Raff’s Jane Austen’s Erotic Advice.

Editors-in-Chief: Stacey Floyd and Melissa Purdue
Reviews Editor: Susan David Bernstein
Reviews Assistant: Elizabeth Scheer
Technical Editor: Josh Reid