Women and Marriage in Victorian Fiction.

First U.S. edition. The treatment of women in fiction between 1792 and 1913 is the primary subject of this study, however the author also covers relevent topics such as child labor, the hypocritical sexual mores of the time, and the false dawn of feminism at the turn of the century. The works of many authors are discussed, including Leo Tolstoy, Jane Austin, Elizabeth Gaskell, the Brontë sisters, and Charles Dickens. Illustrated, chronology of relevant books, index.