{"product_id":"readers-and-mistresses-1764117025484","title":"Readers and mistresses","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReaders and Mistresses: Kept Women in Victorian Literature \u003c\/i\u003eidentifies 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 \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e, Dickens' \u003ci\u003eHard Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDombey and Son\u003c\/i\u003e, and George Gissing's \u003ci\u003eThe Odd Women\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Katie R. Peel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359620596004,"sku":"9781526198211","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0880\/7635\/3828\/files\/CoreSourceHub_574be22e-5e04-43e6-87f1-48e06874c76e.jpg?v=1768949891","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.co.uk\/products\/readers-and-mistresses-1764117025484","provider":"IndiePubs UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}