Description
A sharp, perceptive literary guide from one of Britain’s pioneering women journalists, this volume captures what it meant to be a reader in the mid-nineteenth century—mapping the rhythms of arrival and departure, the daily discipline of desks and study, and the cultural forces that shaped taste. With a keen feminist sensibility, it moves through the lives and works of major figures, using biography and criticism to illuminate how character, reputation, and authorship are formed—and how they can be flattened by time. The book’s high-level journey follows the reader’s world as it shifts between public acclaim and private reality, asking what survives when individuality is “resolved” into memory. Blending lively observation with literary analysis, it reflects Linton’s distinctive voice: direct, intellectually confident, and attuned to the human stakes behind the page.
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paperback
MacMillan
Published Jan 1, 1997
195 pages
ISBN: 0665848854
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First Published
1877
Language
eng
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