Ardis, Ann L. "The Controversy over Realism in Fiction, 1885-1895." In New Women, New Novels: Feminism and Early Modernism, pp. 29-58. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1990.

Analyzes the condescension that typically marked the critical review of novels written by women authors in the late nineteenth century.

Bauer, Dale M., and Philip Gould, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2001, 366 p.

Collection of essays on a range of issues related to the literary production of nineteenth-century American women writers, much of it focused on their reformist rhetoric.

Bernstein, Susan David. Confessional Subjects: Revelations of Gender and Power in Victorian Literature and Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997, 206 p.

Study of the thematic concerns of gender and power in confessional literature of the Victorian era.

Bloom, Harold, ed. British Women Fiction Writers of the Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia...