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<br> Roomscape deserves to find a readership, for its original pursuit of a rich topic and the possibilities it suggests for further study. --Matthew Ingleby, TLS<p><br> By drawing women back towards the foci of 19th-century intellectual life, Bernstein has done library history a great service. --Colin Higgins, Librarian, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, THE<p><br>

"...the sheer force of material reality described and analyzed by this astute, generous writer makes for rich, provocative reading.--Gail Turley Houston, University of New Mexico ""Journal of British Studies, Volume 53, Issue 01"" By drawing women back towards the foci of 19th-century intellectual life, Bernstein has done library history a great service.--Colin Higgins, Librarian, St Catharine's College, Cambridge ""THE"" Roomscape deserves to find a readership, for its original pursuit of a rich topic and the possibilities it suggests for further study.--Matthew Ingleby ""TLS"" Roomscape [demonstrates] the continuing relevance, across time and space, of keeping our ears and eyes trained on the past in the interest of shaping our collective future as feminist scholars.--Mary Jean Corbett, Miami University ""Nineteenth Century Gender Studies; Issue 9.3"" In a work of pioneering archival recovery and dazzling theoretical innovation, Susan Bernstein discovers a space where British women writers from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf found solace, intimacies, and communities crucial to their professional identities and intellectual development. Bernstein's ground-breaking feminist study produces startling new discoveries. No one will regard Virginia Woolf the same way. Roomscape is a tour de force of interdisciplinary cultural history of the highest order.--Priya Joshi, Temple University Roomscape deserves to find a readership, for its original pursuit of a rich topic and the possibilities it suggests for further study.--Matthew Ingleby ""TLS"" Roomscape [demonstrates] the continuing relevance, across time and space, of keeping our ears and eyes trained on the past in the interest of shaping our collective future as feminist scholars.--Mary Jean Corbett, Miami University ""Nineteenth Century Gender Studies; Issue 9.3"""

Roomscape deserves to find a readership, for its original pursuit of a rich topic and the possibilities it suggests for further study. --Matthew Ingleby, TLS By drawing women back towards the foci of 19th-century intellectual life, Bernstein has done library history a great service. --Colin Higgins, Librarian, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, THE

...the sheer force of material reality described and analyzed by this astute, generous writer makes for rich, provocative reading.--Gail Turley Houston, University of New Mexico ""Journal of British Studies, Volume 53, Issue 01"" By drawing women back towards the foci of 19th-century intellectual life, Bernstein has done library history a great service.--Colin Higgins, Librarian, St Catharine's College, Cambridge ""THE"" Roomscape deserves to find a readership, for its original pursuit of a rich topic and the possibilities it suggests for further study.--Matthew Ingleby ""TLS"" Roomscape [demonstrates] the continuing relevance, across time and space, of keeping our ears and eyes trained on the past in the interest of shaping our collective future as feminist scholars.--Mary Jean Corbett, Miami University ""Nineteenth Century Gender Studies; Issue 9.3"" In a work of pioneering archival recovery and dazzling theoretical innovation, Susan Bernstein discovers a space where British women writers from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf found solace, intimacies, and communities crucial to their professional identities and intellectual development. Bernstein's ground-breaking feminist study produces startling new discoveries. No one will regard Virginia Woolf the same way. Roomscape is a tour de force of interdisciplinary cultural history of the highest order.--Priya Joshi, Temple University Roomscape deserves to find a readership, for its original pursuit of a rich topic and the possibilities it suggests for further study.--Matthew Ingleby ""TLS"" Roomscape [demonstrates] the continuing relevance, across time and space, of keeping our ears and eyes trained on the past in the interest of shaping our collective future as feminist scholars.--Mary Jean Corbett, Miami University ""Nineteenth Century Gender Studies; Issue 9.3""

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Susan David Bernstein is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

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