1st Edition

Gender, Religion and Domesticity in the Novels of Rosa Nouchette Carey

By Elaine Hartnell Copyright 2000
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

This title was first published in 2000. Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840-1909), the English author of forty-one ’domestic’ novels, was continuously in print from 1868 until at least 1924 and yet she is virtually unknown today. This first in-depth study of Carey’s work assesses both her immense popularity and her subsequent fall from favour. Organized thematically, it engages with the historical and... Read more
Contents: Introduction; The Mad, the Bad and the Morbid; Maiden Ladies; Women and Children Second; Hearth and Home; Sentimental Heresies; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Biography

Elaine Hartnell