Bleak Houses. Lisa Surridge
to the many people who have encouraged my research and commented on the manuscript’s many draft versions: Luke Carson, Christopher Keep, Mary Elizabeth Leighton, and Marie Surridge in particular. I would also like to thank the anonymous readers at Ohio University Press, as well as my editors, Sharon Rose, Bevin McLaughlin, and Nancy Basmajian. Special thanks to Judith Mitchell for her critical acumen and warm encouragement and to John Adams, who has been a strong and loving source of support in this work and in all things.
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Some of the material in this book appeared in “Dogs’/Bodies, Women’s Bodies: Wives as Pets in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Domestic Violence,” Victorian Review 20 (1994): 1–34, and in “Domestic Violence, Female Self-Mutilation, and the Healing of the Male in Dombey and Son,” Victorians Institute Journal (1997): 77–104, and is reprinted here by permission of the editors.
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