“It is Not What We Read, But How We Read”: Maternal Counsel on Girls’ Reading Practices in Mid‐Victorian LiteratureFootnote¹

[1] Matilda Pullan, Maternal Counsels to a Daughter (London: Darton, 1855) 51. Pullan (née Chesney) was more commonly known for her interest in women’s fashions (writing for periodicals such as Belle Assemblée and the London and Paris Gazette of Fashion), although she did publish other books for the young.

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