"A critical biography of the British poet Mathilde Blind (1841-1896)--a free-thinking radical feminist in late-Victorian London. Diedrick underscores the importance of Blind's poetry and her critical writings (her work on Shelley, biographies of George Eliot and Madame Roland, and her translations of Feuerbach and Bashkirtseff) for the literature and culture of the fin de siècle" --