Author(s): Brenda Ayres
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 267
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
1. "Not the Superiority of Belief, but Superiority of True Devotion": Grace Aguilar's Histories of the Spirit......Page 20
2. The Victorian Heroine Goes A-Governessing......Page 46
3. The Detective Maidservant: Catherine Crowe's Susan Hopley......Page 76
4. Deathbeds and Didacticism: Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna and Victorian Social Reform Literature......Page 86
5. Class Counts: The Domestic-Professional Writer, the Working Poor, and Middle-Class Values in The Years That the Locust Hath Eaten and The Story of a Modern Woman......Page 110
6. On the Face of the Waters: Flora Annie Steel and the Politics of Feminist Imperialism......Page 138
7. Re-reading the Domestic Novel: Anne Thackeray's The Story of Elizabeth......Page 158
8. "I Am Not Esther": Biblical Heroines and Sarah Grand's Challenge to Institutional Christianity in The Heavenly Twins......Page 174
9. Dinah Mulock Craik: Sacrifice and the Fairy-Order......Page 192
10. Marie Corelli: "The Story of One Forgotten"......Page 222
Bibliography......Page 244
C......Page 260
G......Page 261
O......Page 262
W......Page 263
Y......Page 264
About the Contributors......Page 266
