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Readers and mistresses (Kept women in Victorian literature)
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Product Details
Author:
Katie R. Peel
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
232
Publisher:
Manchester University Press (June 23, 2026)
Imprint:
Manchester University Press
Language:
English
Audience:
College/higher education
ISBN-13:
9781526198211
ISBN-10:
1526198215
Weight:
9.76oz
Dimensions:
5.51" x 8.5" x 0.5"
File:
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Folder:
TWO RIVERS
List Price:
$36.95
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Series:
Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
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P-PER
Discount Code:
A
Case Pack:
20
Overview
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2025
Readers and Mistresses: Kept Women in Victorian Literature identifies kept mistresses in British Victorian narrative and offers ways to understand their experiences. The author discusses kept women characters in Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton and Ruth, Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda, and examines the methods their authors use to encourage reader empathy. This book also usefully demonstrates how to identify kept women when they are less visible in texts, including in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Dickens' Hard Times and Dombey and Son, and George Gissing's The Odd Women.
