TY  - BOOK
AU  - Colby,Vineta
TI  - Yesterday's woman: domestic realism in the English novel 
T2  - Princeton Legacy Library
SN  - 9781400872657
AV  - PR871 .Y478 1974
PY  - 1974///
CY  - Princeton, New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - English fiction
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Domestic fiction, English
KW  - Realism in literature
KW  - Women in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - 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 works of such minor novelists as Mrs. Gore, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Yonge, and Harriet Martincau, arguing that they prepared the way for the novels of the great Victorian era. Antiromantic and bourgeois in spirit, these domestic novels were conc
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