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 Bront�'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 Bront�'s Jane Eyre, Dickens' Hard Times and Dombey and Son, and George Gissing's The Odd Women.
| ISBN: | 9781526198211 |
| Publication date: | 23rd June 2026 |
| Author: | Katie R Peel |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 232 pages |
| Series: | Interventions : Rethinking the Nineteenth Century |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Gender studies: women and girls Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |
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 Bront�'s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, and examines the methods their authors use to encourage reader empathy.
Readers and Mistresses features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
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Readers and Mistresses was written by Katie R Peel and published by Manchester University Press
Readers and Mistresses has 232 pages
Yes it is part of Interventions : Rethinking the Nineteenth Century series
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