This is the first book-length study of the important Poet and political writer Violet Fane (Lady Mary Montgomerie Currie, n e Lamb, 1843-1905).
The study also illustrates the tensions within her self-representations that stem from the limitations gender roles imposed on women, which.
Fane is shown as a relevant figure in the Literary history of the nineteenth century: as a poet, a celebrity writer, and an ambassadress.
It recovers Fane\'s work to a central position in the Literary canon.
This is the first book-length study of the important Poet and political writer Violet Fane (Lady Mary Montgomerie Currie, n e Lamb, 1843-1905)