'A large and passionate humanity plays about her' : women and moral agency in the late Victorian social problem novel

This thesis examines responses to the idea of a specific female moral agency in depictions of women’s philanthropic work by late nineteenthcentury female novelists. Focusing on depictions of romantic and sexual female experience in the late nineteenth-century campaign against poverty, I explore the...

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Main Author: Murdoch, Christina
Published: University of Glasgow 2012
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.566434