{"product_id":"readers-and-mistresses-kept-women-in-victorian-literature-9781526198211","title":"Readers and Mistresses: Kept Women in Victorian Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eA CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2025 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReaders and Mistresses: Kept Women in Victorian Literature identifies kept mistresses in British Victorian narrative and offers ways to understand their experiences. The author discusses kept women characters in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton and Ruth, Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, and examines the methods their authors use to encourage reader empathy. This book also usefully demonstrates how to identify kept women when they are less visible in texts, including in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Dickens' Hard Times and Dombey and Son, and George Gissing's The Odd Women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Katie R. Peel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/23\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.49d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781526198211","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463764033673,"sku":"9781526198211","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_39301b94-f8f8-420a-b5f1-3641050be4ca.jpg?v=1784059718","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/readers-and-mistresses-kept-women-in-victorian-literature-9781526198211","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}