ELIZABETH JACKSON is a Sessional Lecturer in Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, where she teaches courses on Victorian, colonial and postcolonial literatures. She has also taught at Goldsmiths College, University of London, where she earned her PhD in 2007.

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Women, Cultural Identity, and Social Class Marriage and Sexuality Motherhood and Other Work Women's Role in Maintaining and/or Resisting Patriarchy Form and Narrative Strategy Conclusion References Bibliography Index