‘A thought in the huge bald forehead’: Depictions of women in the british museum reading room, 1857-1929

Reading Women: Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 168-191

  Hoberman, Ruth ^a  

^a EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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