Maude by Christina Rossetti, on Sisterhoods and a Woman's Thoughts about Women by Dinah Mulock Craik

"Maude" was written when Christina Rossetti was 19 and examines the heroine's struggle to resist the notion that modesty and domesticity constitute the duties of women. "On Sisterhoods" by Dinah Mulock Craik advocates the encouragement of Anglican sisterhoods.