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Virginia Blain Author & Editor

Virginia Blain is Professor in English at Macquarie University, Australia.

Victorian Women Poets cover

Victorian Women Poets

Virginia Blain - Paperback

£38.99

Victorian Women Poets cover

Victorian Women Poets

Virginia Blain - Hardback

£145.00

Caroline Bowles Southey cover

Caroline Bowles Southey

Virginia Blain - Paperback

£33.99

No Name

Wilkie Collins - Paperback

£9.99

Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment cover

Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment

2 contributors - Paperback

£129.99

Caroline Bowles Southey cover

Caroline Bowles Southey

Virginia Blain - Hardback

£115.00

Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment cover

Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment

2 contributors - Hardback

£129.99