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Seminar report topics and guidelines
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Discussion guide for Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
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Overview of class structure in the nineteenth century
- John Ruskin, from "Of Queen's Gardens"
- Instructions and Assignments for Seminar Reports
- Discussion guide for Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
- Elizabeth Rigby's Review of Jane Eyre
- "Governesses Benevolent Institution," Punch 10 (1846): 216 (pdf)
- Bret Harte's parody of Jane Eyre, "Miss Mix," from Condensed Novels
- Deadlines and requirements for the seminar research project, general writing guidelines for literary essays, and a guide to using quotations.
- Discussion questions for Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South (Random House).
- "Factory Life—Its Novels and Facts," an essay published in the November 1855 issue of the Unitarian journal The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany (vol. LIX no. 3). The essay includes reviews of Gaskell's North and South and Dickens' Hard Times (pdf).
- Mary Braddon's "Good Lady Ducayne" (pdf) and "The Shadow in the Corner" (pdf), and discussion questions for both stories.
- Elizabeth Gaskell's "The Old Nurse's Tale"(pdf) and discussion questions.
- Discussion questions for Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret.
- Christina Rossetti's Speaking Likenesses (pdf) and Frances Hodgson Burnett's "Behind the White Brick" (pdf) and discussion questions for both stories.
- Discussion
questions for Amy Levy's The Romance of a Shop.
- Discussion questions for Ella Hepworth Dixon's The Story of a Modern Woman.
- Catherine Louisa Pirkis's "The Black Bag Left on a Door-Step" from The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective (1894); Baroness Emmuska Orczy's "The Woman in the Big Hat" from Lady Molly of Scotland Yard (1910) (pdf)
- E. Nesbit's "Melisande, or Long and Short Division" (pdf).
- Discussion
questions for Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden