Readers and Mistresses: Kept Women in Victorian Literature

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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 Gaskells Mary Barton and Ruth, Anne Bronts The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and George Eliots 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. I look at primary women characters in Charlotte Bronts Jane Eyre, Dickens Hard Times and Dombey and Son, and George Gissings The Odd Women.

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Katie R. Peel is an Associate Professor of English at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.