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Reading Women: Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present

Reading Women: Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present. Edited by Janet Badia and Jennifer Phegley. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.297 pp. $60.00/$27.95 paper.

In the introduction to their insightful collection of essays about shifting notions of female readership and changing depictions of women readers in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain and America, Janet Badia and Jennifer Phegley note many contemporary female readers' seemingly insatiable appetite for calendars, notecards, and journals adorned with images of reading women (particularly romanticized images of white, middle-class readers, depicted in luxurious surroundings). With its ...

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