great literature is, at bottom, a criticism of life’. Victorians also had more time for
their children.nFurther reading
Gaskell, E.,Life of Charlotte Brontë, ed. E. Cleghorn (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975).
Haight, G.,George Eliot: A Life(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968).
Wheeler, M.,English Fiction of the Victorian Period, 1830–90, 2nd edn (Harlow: Longman,
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