Readers and Mistresses: Kept Women in Victorian Literature by Peel, Katie R.

Readers and Mistresses: Kept Women in Victorian Literature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781526198211)

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Readers and Mistresses: Kept Women in Victorian Literature by Peel, Katie R.

Readers and Mistresses: Kept Women in Victorian Literature

$36.95
Readers and Mistresses: Kept Women in Victorian Literature by Peel, Katie R.

Readers and Mistresses: Kept Women in Victorian Literature

$36.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Katie R. Peel
ISBN-10: 1526198215
ISBN-13: 9781526198211
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/23/2026
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
By Katie R. Peel
By Katie R. Peel
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Katie R. Peel is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina Wilmington

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