When seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson’s widowed father remarries, her life is turned upside down by the arrival of her vain, manipulative stepfather. She also acquires an intriguing new stepsister, Cynthia, glamorous…

The material presented in this six-volume set moves away from courtly etiquette, adopting a more middle-class, domestic focus, and includes facsimile reproductions of sermons, poems, narratives and cookery books

This collection aims to give a chronological insight into the evolution of conduct literature, from its early roots in the Renaissance period through to the dramatically different role that women…

Using close readings from ‘Sense and Sensibility’, ‘Mrs Dalloway’, ‘Emma’, ‘The Waves’, ‘Persuasion’ and ‘The Years’, this bookdemonstrates the materialist sensibilities of Austen and Woolf.

This anthology provides in a convenient format a good selection of the writing by Bakhtin and of that attributed to Voloshinov and Medvedev. It introduces readers to the aspects most…

Covers the Victorian period, bringing together a range of texts reflecting the role of women in an era when their cultural influence broadened as science, religious doubt, and the idea…