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Tables of Contents for Feminist Readings of Victorian Popular Texts
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
General Editors' Preface
vii
List of Contributors
ix
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction
xiii
Short Stories, Poetry and Periodicals
`The False Prudery of Public Taste': Scandalous Women and the Annuals, 1820-1850
1
17
Harriet Devine Jump
`Too Boldly' for a Woman: Text, Identity and the Working-Class Woman Poet
18
17
Margaret Forsyth
Every Girl's Best Friend?: The Girl's Own Paper and its Readers
35
18
Hilary Skelding
Popular Fiction
Good Housekeeping? Domestic Economy and Suffering Wives in Mrs Henry Wood's Early Fiction
53
16
Emma Liggins
After Lady Audley: M.E. Braddon, the Actress and the Act of Writing in Hostages to Fortune
69
20
Kate Mattacks
See What a Big Wide Bed it is!: Mrs Henry Wood and the Philistine Imagination
89
19
Deborah Wynne
`Weird Fascination': The Response to Victorian Women's Ghost Stories
108
18
Clare Stewart
The Popular Stage
Feminist Discourse in Popular Drama of the Early- and Mid-Victorian Era
126
21
Daniel Duffy
Women's Playwriting and the Popular Theatre in the Late Victorian Era, 1870-1900
147
21
Kate Newey
Bibliography
168
4
Index
172