The Political Poetess: Victorian Femininity, Race, and the Legacy of Separate SpheresThe Political Poetess challenges familiar accounts of the figure of the nineteenth century Poetess, offering new readings of Poetess performance and criticism. In performing the Poetry of Woman, the mythic Poetess has long staked her claims as a creature of separate spheres one exempt from emerging readings of nineteenth century women's political poetics. Turning such assumptions on their heads, Tricia Lootens models a nineteenth century domestic or