Louise Penner, Victorian Medicine and Social Reform: Florence Nightingale among the Novelists
Much social activism went on in the Victorian period, and quite a few social reformers were women. These female social reformers were even fictionalized and satirized, as Mrs Jellyby in Bleak House (1854), Dickens’s obsessive philanthropist who focuses so much on Africa that she forgets to look aft...
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2013
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