| Author/Contributor(s): | Mitchell, Sally |
| Publisher: | University of Wisconsin Press |
| Date: | 01/01/1981 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
This book discusses the figure of the unchaste woman in a wide range of fiction written between 1835 and 1880; serious novels by Dickens, Mrs. Gaskell, Meredith, and George Eliot; popular novels that provided light reading for middle-class women (including books by Dinah Craik, Rhoda Broughton, and Ouida); sensational fiction; propaganda for social reform; and stories in cheap periodicals such as the Family Herald and the London Journal, which reached a different and far wider audience than either serious or popular novels.