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Editor: "The public doesn't want scandal, they want wholesome novels!"
Mary: "Do they?" *Mike Drop* #Eng5555D

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Modern women have to push against waiting/smiling (because the fabric of civ. rests on a woman smiling...)/skirts, acc. to Dixon #Eng5555D

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Ruth Hoberman "Women in the British Museum Reading Room during the Late 19th & early 20th Centuries: From Quasi- to Counterpublic" #Eng5555D

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Realism in "New Grub Street" - Is there a market for "tedious" descriptions of real life? Biffin might need to a "reality" check #Eng5555D

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Anxiety of Influence - writers are destroying the demon "other" to replace w/ themselves to create their own writing careers #Eng5555D

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@vicprintculture I feel as if both authors would like all the facebook posters that enjoy posting meal pics nowadays... #Eng5555D

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Why did male writers become dominant in the field over women once single-volume novels became the popular format in the 1880s? #Eng5555D

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"You could always be a governess--"

"HOW DARE YOU"

Apparently there was a bad rap because of the "babysitter complex" #Eng5555D

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Gissing vs. Trollope Friday in the Thunderdome: Page numbers, hours worked, money earned/value of the works... #Eng5555D

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TROOOOOPPEEESSSSSS! #Eng5555D

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"'New Grub Street' isn't pessimistic, no, it's more dripping with cynicism..."

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What are George Gissing's outlooks on the state of novelists and novel writing at the turn of the century? #Eng5555D

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Victorian love: if it's not "at first sight" then guilt always works... #AlickandRachel #Shouldhavegrabbedthatdog #DamnMaleverer #Eng5555D

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Heard you like print culture, so we put some print culture in your Victorian print culture #InceptionNoise #Eng5555D

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A disabled reading of "The Clever Woman of the Family" might shed some interesting insight on Yonge's use of disabilities... #ENG5555D

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@Polaris816 Can't seem to catch a break, constantly throwing themselves against the brick wall that is students, yeah, sounds about right...

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@victorianprint @Eng5555D I wonder if the subtlety of language is b/c Yonge knows that so many sensationalist events would be unbelievable.

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At least the Victorians ended slavery WAY before America did. If brought a slave to English soil, "slave" went free #Eng5555D

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"Post Darwin: Social Darwinism, Degeneration, Eugenics" by Carolyn Burdett; what function does the idea of Eugenics play in SoW? #Eng5555D

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Dammit Victorians, "just be a good person!"
Alternatively, Isola = perfect Victorian GENTLEMAN??? #Eng5555D