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"A useful companion work that offers a concise description of the trope of the woman reader along with evidence of its presence in major Victorian novels."
--ELT

"Offers a fresh look at both images of women readers and Victorian book illustrations . . . Well worth reading, both for her work on Boz, specifically, and for the ways in which it adds to our understanding of Victorian gender constructions."
--Dickens Quarterly

"Shows how writers and illustrators responded to the debate over whether or not women ought to read." "A close analysis of works by readers and authors of texts by Dickens, the Bronte sisters, Eliot, Thackeray, Alcott, Twain, Gilman, and James."
--American Literature

"An important contribution to transatlantic studies."
--Victorian Studies

"Offers some refreshing new literary analysis of classic texts and brings fresh material to the table in the form of literary illustrations."
--Peer English

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