Women in the Literary Market 1800-1900

Unconventional Lifestyles
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Mrs. Kingscote was one of the first female novelists to attend Oxford University. This novel is about a couple who agree to divorce so that he can marry a rich woman and support the couple’s four children.

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Lucas Cleeve [pseudonym of Mrs. Adelina Kingscote]. What a Woman Will Do. London, F.V. White, 1900.
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learned poets
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charlotte bronte and george eliot
sin and sensation
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L.T. Meade
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