Juliette Atkinson was born in Paris, and grew up in both France and England. She did her BA(Hons) at UCL, and went to Oxford to study the MSt Literature 1900-Present. In 2008, she completed a PhD on Victorian life-writing at UCL (funded by a UCL Research Scholarship), and between 2009 and 2012 she was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. She is now a lecturer in the English department as UCL, where she specialises in the literature of the long 19th century. Her book Victorian Biography Reconsidered (OUP) was published in 2010, and she has written the introduction and notes for The Mill on the Floss and edited Silas Marner, both for Oxford World's Classics.

• PART I: Disseminating French novels1: Obtaining French novels2: Literary NetworksPART II: The dangers of French novels3: The immorality of French novels4: Fictional readersPART III: National literary identities5: Literary influence6: Cultural competitionConclusion

A meticulously researched and fascinating study ... a fascinating perspective from the outside on how the French novel evolved and was read in mid-century England, one that should be of interest to any dix-neuvièmiste.

Juliette Atkinson was born in Paris, and grew up in both France and England. She did her BA(Hons) at UCL, and went to Oxford to study the MSt Literature 1900-Present. In 2008, she completed a PhD on Victorian life-writing at UCL (funded by a UCL Research Scholarship), and between 2009 and 2012 she was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. She is now a lecturer in the English department as UCL, where she specialises in the literature of the long 19th century. Her book Victorian Biography Reconsidered (OUP) was published in 2010, and she has written the introduction and notes for The Mill on the Floss and edited Silas Marner, both for Oxford World's Classics.

• PART I: Disseminating French novels1: Obtaining French novels2: Literary NetworksPART II: The dangers of French novels3: The immorality of French novels4: Fictional readersPART III: National literary identities5: Literary influence6: Cultural competitionConclusion

A meticulously researched and fascinating study ... a fascinating perspective from the outside on how the French novel evolved and was read in mid-century England, one that should be of interest to any dix-neuvièmiste.

Juliette Atkinson was born in Paris, and grew up in both France and England. She did her BA(Hons) at UCL, and went to Oxford to study the MSt Literature 1900-Present. In 2008, she completed a PhD on Victorian life-writing at UCL (funded by a UCL Research Scholarship), and between 2009 and 2012 she was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. She is now a lecturer in the English department as UCL, where she specialises in the literature of the long 19th century. Her book Victorian Biography Reconsidered (OUP) was published in 2010, and she has written the introduction and notes for The Mill on the Floss and edited Silas Marner, both for Oxford World's Classics.

• PART I: Disseminating French novels1: Obtaining French novels2: Literary NetworksPART II: The dangers of French novels3: The immorality of French novels4: Fictional readersPART III: National literary identities5: Literary influence6: Cultural competitionConclusion

A meticulously researched and fascinating study ... a fascinating perspective from the outside on how the French novel evolved and was read in mid-century England, one that should be of interest to any dix-neuvièmiste.