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Yesterday's Woman: Domestic Realism in the English Novel
By (Author) Vineta Colby
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th May 2015
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
823.809
Paperback
280
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
397g
Encouraged by the response of the avid novel-reading public in early nineteenth-century England, minor novelists produced a staggering number of volumes that shaped styles, formed attitudes, and gave to the novel a new status and respectability. These novels were read by both sexes, but the majority were written by women. Vineta Colby examines the