![]() ![]() It is a fairly well-worn critical commonplace that after the death of George Eliot in 1880, English women novelists entered a period of critical decline. Additionally, the rise of book history as a discipline over the past two decades has made the study of publishers' archives practically indispensable for a fuller understanding of what we have been accustomed to call the 'text'. Much recent research into Victorian fiction has been influenced by the availability of and access to publishers' records, especially those which have been microfilmed. ![]() One of the reasons for this has been growing scholarly awareness about the importance of publishers' archives. In recent years, many so-called second-rate writers of the nineteenth century, often dismissed as 'queens if the circulating library', have been accorded a measure of rehabilitation. mass of women writers, who resembled Mrs Oliphant and Mary Howitt much more closely than they did the geniuses of their common profession, have largely been ignored.' 1 Happily, this is no longer the case. Mumm lamented: 'While George Eliot, Harriet Martineau, the Brontës, and Mrs Gaskell have been discussed exhaustively, the great. With growing access to archival sources, we are now able to turn from the more canonised writers to their less famous peers. ![]() Recent scholarly excursions into the hinterland of Victorian fiction continue to swell the roll-call of women novelists. ![]()
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