Good, Bad and Real Women

  • Mona Scheuermann
    Her Bread to Earn: Women, Money, and Society from Defoe to Austen. University Press of Kentucky
  • George Holbert Tucker
    Jane Austen The Woman, Some Biographical Insights. St. Martin's Griffin
Reviewed by Barbara Darby
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This review “Good, Bad and Real Women” originally appeared in Canadian Literature 154 (Autumn 1997): 173-174.

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