Isa Craig

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Standard Name: Craig, Isa
Birth Name: Isa Craig
Married Name: Isa Knox
Self-constructed Name: Isa Craig-Knox
Pseudonym: Isa
Pseudonym: Mrs Knox
Pseudonym: The Author of Deepdale Vicarage
Pseudonym: The Author of Mark Warren
Isa Craig was a poet, journalist, editor, and novelist whose literary work was informed by the concerns of the mid-Victorian feminist movement. Her verse appeared in several periodicals, including the feminist English Woman's Journal, on whose staff she served. As assistant secretary of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science between 1857 and 1865, IC compiled and edited that organization's annual Transactions. Much of her journalistic writing and fiction is didactic in tone, evincing a concern with the struggles and moral reform of working-class daily life.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Christina Rossetti
In 1860 CR produced a gothic short story, Case 2: Folio 2, about a man who produced no reflection in mirrors. Her brother William remembered it as perhaps the best tale she ever wrote...
Textual Features Annie S. Swan
The indices to its bound volumes list both tales and serial tales without naming the authors—even though, as named on the pages where their work actually appears, they include such luminaries as Robert Buchanan and...
Textual Production Adelaide Procter
Here AP 's wide literary connections paid off handsomely. Contributors to The Victoria Regia included some of the most prominent names in literature of the day, mingled with less prominent writers who were also feminists:...
Textual Production Eliza Cook
She was not included, however, among contributors to Isa Craig 's anthology of Poems: An Offering to Lancashire, which was published about this time.
Yan, Shu-chuan. “’When Common Voices Speak’: Labour, Poetry and Eliza Cook”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
22
, No. 4, Nov. 2015, pp. 428-54.
437
Textual Production Emily Faithfull
The Victoria Press published two other literary anthologies—one prefaced by Isa Craig and intended to help relieve distress in the cotton districts—as well as two technically impressive works that bore illuminations and chromolithography.
Fredeman, William E. “Emily Faithfull and the Victoria Press: An Experiment in Sociological Bibliography”. The Library, Vol.
29
, No. 2, –June 1974, pp. 139-64.
156-8, 159

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