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Mary Hay''s first novel, Memoirs of Emma Courtney, transgresses literary and social conventions with its outspoken heroine who pursues the man she loves. It concerns itself with issues of female dependence, sexuality, and woman's role in society.

Memoirs of Modern Philosophers follows the plight of Brigetina Botherim, whose participation in an English anti-Jacobin group leads her to disregard the advice of her mother and of other elders.'

This text dramatises many key issues relating to class and gender in late Victorian culture. In Gissing's story, Virginia Madden and her two sisters are confronted upon the death of their father with sudden impoverishment.

In 1832, Harold Transome arrives home from the East to inherit the family estate, and startles his family by standing as a Radical candidate. He is well-intentioned but misguided, and his character is contrasted with idealistic artisan, Felix Holt.

The works of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) ranged from the early Thoughts on the Education of Daughters to The Female Reader, a selection of texts for girls, and included two novels.

Michael Henchard gets drunk at a fair and sells his wife and child for five guineas to a sailor. Henchard proves to be violent, selfish, greedy and crude, yet at the same time he is magnanimous and humble.

A novel, first published in 1826, set in the 21st century, when England is a republic governed by a ruling elite. The narrator, an outsider introduced to the circle, tells a story of tragic, complicated love, and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague.

East Lynne is the story of Lady Isabel Carlyle, a beautiful young woman who leaves her hard-working but neglectful husband and her infant child to elope with an aristocratic suitor. She later returns in disguise and becomes her husband''s governess.'

Aurora Floyd is one of the leading novels in the genre known as "sensation fiction". Braddon''s text has been carefully annotated for modern readers in this edition, including documents setting the text in context.'