| Adventurous Women in Contemporary American Historical Fiction : Girls' Own Stories Jeannette King is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Aberdeen, UK. Publications include: Discourses of Ageing in Fiction and Feminism: (2012) , The Victorian Woman Question in Contemporary Feminist Fiction (2005) , Women and the Word: Contemporary Women Novelists and the Bible (2000) , and Tragedy in the Victorian Novel: Theory and Practice in the Novels of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy and Henry James (1978) . |