The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope Vol 1

by Brenda Ayres, Ann-Barbara Graff, Abigail Burnham Bloom, Tamara S Wagner, Elsie B Michie

2024 · Taylor & Francis

The writings of Frances Trollope have been subject to increasing academic interest in recent years, and are now widely studied. In this four-volume set her comical, yet subversive, treatment of Victorian marriage provides an interesting contrast to some of the more earnest but conventional fiction of the time.

Outside the Pale

by Elsie Browning Michie

1993 · Cornell University Press

"Matters That Appertain to the Imagination": Accounting for Production in Frankenstein -- "The Yahoo, Not the Demon": Heathcliff, Rochester, and the Simianization of the Irish -- "My Story as My Own Property": Gaskell, Dickens, and the Rhetoric of Prostitution -- "Those That Will Not Work": Prostitutes, Property, Gaskell, and Dickens -- "High Art and Science Always Require the Whole Man": Culture and Menstruation in Middlemarch.