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Review of the BBC Radio 4’s adaption of George Moore’s ‘Esther Waters’ (1894)

Victorians Beyond the Academy

Guy Woolnough (Keele University) Esther Waters (George Moore, 1894) is an interesting choice for the BBC Radio 4 Sunday afternoon serial. [1] It is a novel that I have used it as a historical quarry (rather like Gissing’s Nether World), as a source of references of a particular type, but is not a work that I should ever have chosen to read for entertainment. Like Gissing’s work, Esther Waters belongs to the miserablist genre. It is a narrative of adversity and setback for

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