Table of Contents:
  • List of Plates
  • Preface and Acknowledgements for the Reissued Edition
  • 1. Thackeray's Errors
  • 2. Writing The Woman in White
  • 3. Dickens, Reade, Hard Cash, and Maniac Wives
  • 4. Dickens's Serializing Imitators
  • 5. Eliot, Lytton, and the Zelig Effect
  • 6. Trollope at Work on The Way We Live Now
  • 7. Miss Bretherton, Miss Brown, and Miss Rooth
  • 8. The Victorian Novelists: Who were they?
  • Plot Summaries
  • Notes
  • Index