{"product_id":"readers-and-mistresses","title":"Readers and mistresses","description":"\u003ci\u003eReaders and mistresses: Kept women in Victorian literature\u003c\/i\u003e identifies kept mistresses in British Victorian narrative and offers ways to understand their experiences. The author discusses kept women characters in Charles Dickens' \u003ci\u003eOliver Twist\u003c\/i\u003e, Elizabeth Gaskell's \u003ci\u003eMary Barton\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRuth\u003c\/i\u003e, Anne Bront's \u003ci\u003eThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall\u003c\/i\u003e, and George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, and examines the methods their authors use to encourage reader empathy. This book also usefully demonstrates how to identify kept women when they are less visible in texts, including in Charlotte Bront's \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e, Dickens' \u003ci\u003eHard Times \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDombey and Son\u003c\/i\u003e, and George Gissing's \u003ci\u003eThe Odd Women\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"NewSouth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45372764193006,"sku":"9781526176479","price":151.31,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9781526176479.jpg?v=1717235071","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/readers-and-mistresses","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}