Private Sphere to World Stage from Austen to Eliot

Emily Dickinson''s poem, ''This is my letter to the World/ That never wrote to Me --'', opens the Introduction, which focuses on the near-anonymity of nineteenth-century women novelists. Close readings of works by five British novelists Jane Austen, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot offer persuasive accounts of the ways in which women used stealth tactics to outmaneuv...