Download or read book The Female Reader in the English Novel written by Joe Bray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second half of the eighteenth century the female reader was a frequent topic of cultural debate and moral concern. This book examines the variety of ways in which women ‘read’ the social world in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century novel.