SOURCE: "The Education of Cousin Phillis," in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Vol. 50, No. 1, June, 1995, pp. 27-50.
In the following essay, Rogers contends that Gaskell's short story "Cousin Phillis" describes the predicament of the well-educated woman in Victorian Britain; his analysis also focuses upon the significance of the title character's name.
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