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Review from previous edition Gilbert's fetching descriptions of this underexamined narrative feature make a compelling contribution. Gone Girls will inspire some of its readers to bolt directly back to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels that, as the author eloquently puts it, ‘remind us of the radical, often underestimated potency of running to break free. * Devoney Looser, The Times Literary Supplement * In Gone Girls, 1684-1901, Nora Gilbert provides a stirring account of the women and girls who ran from their presumed sites of safety and comfort—home. Through sharp writing and incisive analysis, Gilbert reminds us that sometimes the best thing a woman can do to regain her agency is to walk or run from those who try to limit or control her. * NACBS Stansky Book Prize selection committee * Gone Girls is simultaneously an expansive scholarly monograph and a thrilling historical chronicle that establishes the role of women fleeing from home as part of the rise of the novel and modern feminism. Akin to the female runners at its core, Gilbert’s book breaks the conventional mould of leisurely textual analysis by energetically traversing a wide landscape of temporality, genre, and authorship. * Riya Das, Victoriographies *

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Nora Gilbert is a professor of English at the University of North Texas, where she co-specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and twentieth-century American film. She is the author of Better Left Unsaid: Victorian Novels, Hays Code Censorship, and the Benefits of Censorship (2013) and co-editor of Victorian Gaslighting: Genealogy of an Injustice (2026). Her essays have appeared in such venues as PMLA, Film & History, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Victorian Review, Eighteenth-Century Life, Screen, and Public Books. Since 2017, she has served as editor of Studies in the Novel.

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