About the Author

Deirdre David is Professor of English at Temple University. She is the author of Intellectual Women and Victorian Patriarchy: Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, also from Cornell, and associate editor of The Columbia History of the British Novel.

Reviews

Outstanding.... David shines in her close readings of particular texts and her rich cross-referencing to the present.... Her book contributes to our understanding of the complex interrelationships of gender, class, and race.... The sophistication and clarity of this work provides us with a model of thoughtful, theoretically informed criticism. I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in Victorian literature.
*Journal of English and Germanic Philology*