Aestheticism and the marriage market in Victorian popular fiction : the art of female beauty / by Kirby-Jane Hallum.

Women, beauty and power in early modern England : a feminist literary history / Edith Snook.

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Aestheticism and the marriage market in Victorian popular fiction : the art of female beauty / by Kirby-Jane Hallum.

Women, beauty and power in early modern England : a feminist literary history / Edith Snook.