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The selected works of Margaret Oliphant, Part 5 Volume 20: Hester (2015)
Book
Sanders, V. (2015). V. Sanders (Ed.), The selected works of Margaret Oliphant, Part 5 Volume 20: Hester. Routledge

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and mor... Read More about The selected works of Margaret Oliphant, Part 5 Volume 20: Hester.

'Tender and true': morality and masculinity in nineteenth-century women‟s fiction (2015)
Thesis
Turner, K. J. (2015). 'Tender and true': morality and masculinity in nineteenth-century women‟s fiction. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223293

In 1883 Eliza Lynn Linton described the men in women‟s fiction as „prigs, ruffians, or curled darlings‟, claiming that women writers cannot portray morally good men in fiction without making them seem unrealistic, unattractive, or both. This thesis a... Read More about 'Tender and true': morality and masculinity in nineteenth-century women‟s fiction.

Women in their worlds of objects : construction of female agency through things in the novels of Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell (2015)
Thesis
Huang, P.-C. S. (2015). Women in their worlds of objects : construction of female agency through things in the novels of Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4218026

This thesis argues that Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell employ textually important objects to explore women’s demeaning status in patriarchal societies and their construction of agency in such circumstances. In their novels, both Austen and Gaskell... Read More about Women in their worlds of objects : construction of female agency through things in the novels of Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell.