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A New Woman Reader
In the 1890s one phrase above all stood as shorthand for the various controversies over gender that swirled throughout the period: “the New Woman.” In…
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Mrs Warren’s Profession
One of Bernard Shaw’s early plays of social protest, Mrs Warren’s Profession places the protagonist’s decision to become a prostitute in the context of the…
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Reuben Sachs
Oscar Wilde wrote of this novel, “Its directness, its uncompromising truths, its depth of feeling, and above all, its absence of any single superfluous word,…
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The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Concise Volume B, 3e – Modified eBook International Edition
This modified eBook is intended for readers outside of the United States and Canada. If you are within the United States or Canada, please see…
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The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: One-Volume Compact Edition
In all six of its volumes, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in sound literary…
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The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Volume 6: The Twentieth Century and Beyond
In all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in sound literary…
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The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Volume 6A: The Twentieth Century and Beyond: From 1900 to Mid Century
In all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in sound literary…
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The Call of the Wild
A best-seller from its first publication in 1903, The Call of the Wild tells the story of Buck, a big mongrel dog who is shipped…
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The Odd Women
George Gissing’s The Odd Women dramatizes key issues relating to class and gender in late-Victorian culture: the changing relationship between the sexes, the social impact…
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The Romance of a Shop
The Romance of a Shop is an early “New Woman” novel about four sisters, who decide to establish their own photography business and their own…
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The Type-Writer Girl
Juliet Appleton is an officer’s daughter who is forced to make her own way in the world after her father’s death. Having been trained in…
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The Woman Who Did
The controversial subject matter of Grant Allen’s novel, The Woman Who Did, made it a major bestseller in 1895. It tells the story of Herminia…