Book Cover; Title; Contents; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF CITED COLLECTIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; ̃You Are as Thoroughly Woman as You Are English̃: Strong Femininity and the Making of George Eliot; ̃The Wild and Distracted Call for Proof̃: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Lady Byron Vindicated and the New Professionalism; ̃A More Living Interest̃: George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and the Politics of American Reception; ̃Proclaiming the Royal Lineage to the Average Mind̃: High-Art Aesthetics, the Novel, and Competing Femininities in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The Story of Avis; AFTERWORD; NOTES
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Summary
Challenging previous studies that claim anxiety and antagonism between transatlantic Victorian authors, Jennifer Cognard-Black uncovers a model of reciprocal influence among three of the most popular women writers of the era