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Mona Caird's immensely successful feminist novel, The Daughters of Danaus (1894), remains a popular choice among scholars and teachers of nineteenth-century British literature. This is the first critical edition and the first twenty-first century reprint of Caird's novel with a full editorial apparatus including a critical introduction, notes and appendices. Informed by the novel's fin-de-siecle context, references to Greek mythology and recent scholarship on Caird and the New Woman, this edition will be beneficial for students and scholars of British and Anglophone literature and gender.

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Riya Das is Assistant Professor of English (British/World Literature) at Prairie View A&M University. Das specializes in nineteenth-century British and Anglophone literature with an interest in gender, empire, and narrative form. Das is the author of Women at Odds: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian Literature (Ohio State UP, 2024), which was funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship. Her articles have appeared in Victorians Institute Journal, Victorian Literature and Culture, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom and other venues.

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