Translation, Authorship and the Victorian Professional Woman

In her study of Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Martineau and George Eliot, Scholl shows how three Victorian women writers broadened their capacity for literary professionalism by participating in translation and other activities such as editing and reviewing early in their careers. Access to foreign languages and locales and their translation of texts, nations and cultures ultimately enabled them to transgress the physical and ideological boundaries imposed by English middle-class conventions.