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British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 2

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction
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    Chapter 2 A Decade of Experiment: George Eliot in the 1860s
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    Chapter 3 ‘Duck him!’: Private Feelings, Public Interests, and Ellen Wood’s East Lynne
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    Chapter 4 ‘[Tr]ain[s] of circumstantial evidence’: Railway ‘Monomania’ and Investigations of Gender in Lady Audley’s Secret
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    Chapter 5 ‘There is great need for forgiveness in this world’: The Call for Reconciliation in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Sylvia’s Lovers and A Dark Night’s Work
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    Chapter 6 ‘The plain duties which are set before me’: Charity, Agency, and Women’s Work in the 1860s
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    Chapter 7 ‘[S]mothered under rose-leaves’: Violent Sensation and the Location of the Feminine in Eliza Lynn Linton’s Sowing the Wind
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    Chapter 8 ‘[F]leshly inclinations’: The Nature of Female Desire in Rhoda Broughton’s Early Fiction
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    Chapter 9 Crumbs from the Table: Matilda Betham-Edwards’s Comic Writing in Punch
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    Chapter 10 Transcending Prudence: Charlotte Riddell’s ‘City Women’
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    Chapter 11 ‘[M]ute orations, mute rhapsodies, mute discussions’: Silence in George Eliot’s Last Decade
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    Chapter 12 ‘His eyes commanded me to come to him’: Desire and Mesmerism in Rhoda Broughton’s ‘The Man with the Nose’
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    Chapter 13 ‘[E]mphatically un-literary and middle-class’: Undressing Middle-Class Anxieties in Ellen Wood’s Johnny Ludlow Stories
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    Chapter 14 ‘Sinecures which could be held by girls’: Margaret Oliphant and Women’s Labour
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    Chapter 15 ‘More like a woman stuck into boy’s clothes’: Transcendent Femininity in Florence Marryat’s Her Father’s Name
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    Chapter 16 ‘I am writing the life of a horse’: Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty in the 1870s
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    Chapter 17 Forging a New Path: Fraud and White-Collar Crime in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s 1870s Fiction
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Chapter title
‘There is great need for forgiveness in this world’: The Call for Reconciliation in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Sylvia’s Lovers and A Dark Night’s Work
Chapter number 5
Book title
British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 2
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, January 2020
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-38528-6_5
Book ISBNs
978-3-03-038527-9, 978-3-03-038528-6
Authors

Elizabeth Ludlow