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Gatekeeping: Publishers' Readers, Gender, and the Literature of the 1890s.

Victorian publishers widely relied on readers to evaluate manuscripts. These gatekeepers played a central role in circumscribing the literary field and in shaping literary history. Drawing on extensive archival work, this essay examines the ways in which the readers for the publisher John Lane respo...

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Published in:Victorian Studies Vol. 67; no. 4; pp. 537 - 559
Main Author: Murray, Alex
Format: Article
Published: Indiana University Press Summer2025
Subjects:
History of publishing
Gender studies
Literature
Censorship
Women authors
Literary criticism
Victorian Period, Great Britain, 1837-1901
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