Jane Austen and the Victorian Heroine

Cheryl A. Wilson is Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of English at Stevenson University, USA.  She is the author of Literature and Dance in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Fashioning the Silver Fork Novel, co-editor of Michael Field and Their World, and editor of Byron: Heritage and Legacy.

• 1: Introduction.- 2: The Practice of Reading: Austen as Guide.- 3: Updating Austen: Catherine Hubback and Emily Eden.- 4: The Emma Problem.- 5: “A Girl Writing of Girls”.- 6: Victorian Readers and “England’s Jane”.- Conclusion: Old and New.