This study shows how she sought to reconcile her attachment to the Victorian past with her recognition of a new society that undermined established order and in doing so gave more opportunities to women, confused class-boundaries, extended tolerance, allowed the cult of pleasure and self-assertion and revealed the ambiguities of respectability.
| ISBN: | 9780230525016 |
| Publication date: | 31st July 2007 |
| Author: | R A York |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 175 pages |
| Series: | Crime Files |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literature: history and criticism Fiction |