Victorian Era: Unrepresented Novelist The Victorians are known as a novel writing

and novel-reading society, which makes it nearly impossible to judge the precise
number o novels that were published in the period! The novel industry was central
to many Victorian concerns" novel-writing was a way o making money or
numerous middle class writers and novel reading functioned as a domestic
entertainment! #meanwhile, many novels were written as a medium o rejecting
social, political issues and novel was used as a way o in$uencing reading
populations! This is perhaps why the range o novel in the Victorian era can be
surprising! only a handful of Victorian novelists secured a canonical status today
while numerous others were pushed to forgetfulness! The Victorian novelists are
classed as major, classical, minor underrepresented! %ne thing to note is that some
novelists in the latter category were very well known in their time as popular bestseller writers! 'et, they were neglected later on due to the ever-changing dynamics
of the canon formation! #ray Eli(abet )radon and Ellen good are &toting examples
or once bestselling now underrepresented novelists, whosuered rom the
relegation of popular &citron of the mid Victorian period! Exclusion o once popular
now neglected women writers from the Victorian novel canon, feminist scholars
tend to discuss the opposition between serious literature