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In this Companion, specially-commissioned essays examine the social and cultural context of Victorian fiction.

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The first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning, this volume is a timely, expert, and well-researched biography that offers a vivid portrait of wartime survival and of London literary life from the 1950s through the 1970s.

A new edition of this standard work, fully updated with four brand new chapters.

Deirdre David here explores women's role in the literature of the colonial and imperial British nation, both as writers and as subjects of...

A new, 2nd edition of this standard work, fully updated with 4 new chapters, taking account of new research and critical methodologies.

The first literary biography of the 20th century novelist.

Fanny Kemble played a highly significant cultural role on both sides of the Atlantic. As David so convincingly shows, the life of this actress-turned-writer-turned-polemicist not only offers a fascinating subject in its own right but also intersects with a host of nineteenth-century figures who still interest us today."--U. C. Knoepflmacher

In The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel, a series of specially-commissioned essays examine the work of Charles Dickens, the Brontes, George Eliot and other canonical writers, as well as that of such writers as Olive Schreiner, Wilkie Collins and H. Rider Haggard, whose work has recently attracted new attention from scholars and students. The collection combines the literary study of the novel as a form with analysis of the material a...