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Shirley Foster

Author of What Katy Read: Feminist Re-Readings of Classic Stories for Girls, 1850-1920

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About the Author

Shirley Foster is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Sheffield.

Works by Shirley Foster

What Katy Read: Feminist Re-Readings of Classic Stories for Girls, 1850-1920 (1995) 31 copies

An Anthology of Women's Travel Writing (2002) 8 copies

Victorian women's fiction : marriage, freedom, and the individual (1985) 7 copies

Elizabeth Gaskell: A Literary Life (2002) 4 copies

American women travellers to Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (1994) 2 copies

Across New Worlds: Nineteenth Century Women Travellers and Their Writings (1990) 1 copy

Associated Works

Mary Barton (1848) — Editor, some editions — 3,008 copies, 73 reviews

Zoe: The History of Two Lives (1845) — Introduction, some editions — 43 copies, 4 reviews

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Gender: female
Organizations: university of sheffield

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ISBNs: 20

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