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138006
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Abstract
From the 1880s to the 1910s, novelist Marie Corelli reigned as ‘Queen of the Bestsellers’, far outselling any fellow authors of her day. As I read through her works to complete my Ph.D. on bestselling fiction and a history of women’s emotions, I could not help but be disturbed by the glaring anti-feminist sentiment infusing her writing. Corelli was certainly no supporter of votes for women, but neither, it was apparent, was she a proponent of advances in women’s education and employment.
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S. Crozier-De Rosa 2018 Shame: a transnational history of women policing women Australian Women's History Network http://www.auswhn.org.au/blog/shame-policing-women/