The Women's Review of Books, April 1st, 1997
Suddenly everyone seems to care about bright women in the nineteenth century, fictional heroines with seemingly limitless futures who can procure the lives they deserve only through marrying adroitly. For the most part I am thrilled that non-academics are arguing about nineteenth-century heroines, for Emma Woodhouse, Dorothea Brooke and Isabel Archer are our imaginative origins: they live the lives my own generation inherited and sentimental right-wingers long to restore. Denis Donoghue softens film adaptations of nineteenth-century novels into "period pieces that gratify one's taste for old-f...
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