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Readers and mistresses addresses the question of what to do when someone is invisible in both official documents and literature. The book studies the women who cannot be found in marriage registries, censuses, or much of mainstream, nineteenth-century British literature. Instead of considering kept mistresses as embodying one stage on the way to certain sex work and death, Peel uses the term 'kept woman' to unite women in a variety of kinds of...

Presents a variety of new essays on Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, considered by many to have revolutionized the art of fiction. Edited by Katie R. Peel, this volume includes a variety of fresh approaches, including essays using feminist, reader-response, postcolonial, and performance theories. The essays' topics have also been chosen in order to enhance understanding of the novel and existing scholarship.