Bücher von Deborah Wynne

Charlotte Brontë: legacies and afterlives is a timely reflection on the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Brontë¿s life and work. The new essays in this volume, which cover the period from Brontë¿s first publication to the twenty-first century, explain why her work has endured in so many different forms and contexts.

A study of literary representations of women and portable property during the period 1850 to 1900 that reveals how key changes to the married women's property laws contributed to fresh ways of viewing women in society. It argues that modern paradigms of consumerism cannot be applied across the board to the Victorian period.