Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840-1920

(Jacob Rumans) #1

Notes to pages 99–105 175



  1. Little, Gender and Rural Geography, p. 65.

  2. Eliot, Th e Mill on the Floss, p. 113.

  3. Ibid., p. 113.

  4. Ibid., p. 310.

  5. Ibid., pp. 309, 310, 311.

  6. Ibid., p. 310.

  7. Solnit, Wanderlust, p. 101.

  8. Eliot, Th e Mill on the Floss, p. 310.

  9. Beer, George Eliot, p. 98.

  10. W. Gan, Women, Privacy and Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century British Writing
    (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), p. 3.

  11. S. Walton, this volume, pp. 55–71, on p. 71.

  12. Gan, Women, Privacy and Modernity, p. 8.


7 Montgomery, ‘“I Never Liked Long Walks”: Gender, Nature and


Jane Eyre’s Rural Wandering’



  1. C. Brontë, Jane Eyre, ed. R. J. Dunn, 3rd edn (New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 2000),
    p. 5.

  2. Ibid., p. 277.

  3. R. B. Heilman, ‘Charlotte Brontë’s “New Gothic”‘, in I. Watt (ed.), Th e Victorian Novel:
    Modern Essays in Criticism (London: Oxford University Press, 1971), pp. 165–80.

  4. Notable texts include: C. Alexander, ‘“Th at Kingdom of Gloom”: Charlotte Brontë,
    the Annuals, and the Gothic’, Nineteenth-Century Literature, 47:4 (March 1993), pp.
    409–36; P. Brantlinger, ‘Imperial Gothic’, in A. Smith and W. Hughes (eds), Th e Victo-
    rian Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012),
    pp. 202–16; C. M. Davison, ‘Th e Victorian Gothic and Gender’, in A. Smith and W.
    Hughes (eds), Th e Victorian Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (Edinburgh: Edinburgh
    University Press, 2012), pp. 124–41; S. M. Gilbert and S. Gubar, Th e Madwoman in
    the Attic: Th e Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (New
    Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1979); and A. Milbank, ‘Th e Victorian Gothic in
    English Novels and Stories, 1830–1880’, in J. E. Hogle (ed.), Th e Cambridge Companion
    to Gothic Fiction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 146–66.

  5. E. Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beauti-
    ful (1757), ed. A. Philips (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990).

  6. Brontë, Jane Eyre, p. 108.

  7. D. Y. Kadish, Th e Literature of Images: Narrative Landscape fr om Julie to Jane Eyre (New
    Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press, 1987), pp. 173, 179.

  8. Brontë, Jane Eyre, p. 277.

  9. Jane Eyre’s economics are most frequently associated with Jane’s work as a governess,
    and her ascension from governess to Rochester’s wife. See J. A. Dupras, ‘Tying the Knot
    in the Economic Warp of Jane Eyre’, Victorian Literature and Culture, 26:2 (1998), pp.
    395–408; E. Godfrey, ‘Jane Eyre, from Governess to Girl Bride’, Studies in English Lit-
    erature, 1500–1900, 45:4 (Autumn 2005), pp. 853–71; N. Pell, ‘Resistance, Rebellion,
    and Marriage: Th e Economics of Jane Eyre’, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 31:4 (March
    1977), pp. 397–420; P. Roy, ‘Unaccommodated Women and the Poetics of Property in
    Jane Eyre’, Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900, 29:4 (1989), pp. 713–27; and. L.

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