Victorian Fiction

JOHN SUTHERLAND is Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at UCL and has been, for ten years, an annually Visiting Professor of Literature at the California Institute of Technology, USA. He has published seventeen books, some 30 editions, many articles in learned journals on a variety of subjects - but mostly concentrating on Victorian fiction, the history of publishing, and twentieth-century literature. His most recent books are: Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet? (Oxford, 1998), Henry V: War Criminal (with Cedric Watts and Stephen Orgel, Oxford, 1999), The Literary Detective (Oxford, 2000), Last Drink to LA (Short Books, 2001), Reading the Decades (BBC Books, 2002) and Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography (2004). He also writes a weekly column for the Guardian, and is currently engaged on the Oxford Companion to Popular Fiction.

List of Illustrations Preface to the 2005 Reissue Preface and Acknowledgements Thackeray's Errors Writing The Woman in White Dickens, Reade, Hard Cash , and Maniac Wives Dickens's Serialising Imitators Eliot, Lytton, and the Zelig Effect Trollope at Work on The Way We Live Now Miss Bretherton, Miss Brown, and Miss Rooth The Victorian Novelists: Who Were They? Plot Summaries Notes Index