The provincial fiction of Mitford, Gaskell and Eliot / Kevin A. Morrison.

Considers the interrelated careers of three highly significant women writers of the nineteenth centuryTraces a chain of influence among three highly significant women writers of the nineteenth century: Mary Russell Mitford, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George EliotReconsiders the literary category of prov...

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Uniform Title:Nineteenth-century and neo-Victorian cultures.
Main Author: Morrison, Kevin A., 1976- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2023]
Series:Nineteenth-century and neo-Victorian cultures.
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Physical Description:xi, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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