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Virginia Woolf  \nSusan David Bernstein  \nRoomscape  \nEdinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture Series Editor: Julian Wolfreys  \nVolumes available in the series:  \nIn Lady Audley’s Shadow: Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Victorian Literary Genres Saverio Tomaiuolo  \n978 0 7486 4115 4 Hbk  \nBlasted Literature: Victorian Political Fiction and the Shock of Modernism Deaglán Ó Donghaile  \n978 0 7486 4067 6 Hbk  \nWilliam Morris and the Idea of Community: Romance, History and Propaganda, 1880–1914  \nAnna Vaninskaya  \n978 0 7486 4149 9 Hbk  \n1895: Drama, Disaster and Disgrace in Late Victorian Britain  \nNicholas Freeman  \n978 0 7486 4056 0 Hbk  \nDetermined Spirits: Eugenics, Heredity and Racial Regeneration in AngloAmerican Spiritualist Writing, 1848–1930 Christine Ferguson  \n978 0 7486 3965 6 Hbk  \nDickens’s London: Perception, Subjectivity and Phenomenal Urban Multiplicity  \nJulian Wolfreys  \n978 0 7486 4040 9 Hbk  \nRe-Imagining the ‘Dark Continent’ in fin  \nde siècle Literature Robbie McLaughlan 978 0 7486 4715 6 Hbk  \nRoomscape: Women Readers in the British Museum from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf  \nSusan Bernstein  \n978 0 7486 4065 2 Hbk  \nWalter Pater, Individualism and Aesthetic Philosophy  \nKate Hext  \n978 0 7486 4625 8 Hbk  \nLondon’s Underground Spaces: Representing the Victorian City, 1840–1915  \nHaewon Hwang  \n978 0 7486 7607 1 Hbk  \nThomas Hardy’s Legal Fictions Trish Ferguson  \n978 0 7486 7324 7 Hbk  \nJane Morris and the Burden of History Wendy Parkins  \n978 0 7486 4127 7 Hbk  \nForthcoming volumes:  \nMoving Images: Nineteenth-Century Reading and Screen Practices Helen Groth  \n978 0 7486 6948 6 Hbk  \nHer Father’s Name: Gender, Theatricality and Spiritualism in Florence Marryat’s Fiction  \nTatiana Kontou  \n978 0 7486 4007 2 Hbk  \nBritish India and Victorian Culture Máire ni Fhlathúin  \n978 0 7486 4068 3 Hbk  \nWomen and the Railway, 1850–1915 Anna Despotopoulou  \n978 0 7486 7694 1 Hbk  \nVisit the Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture web page at www. [euppublishing.com/series/ecve](euppublishing.com/series/ecve)  \nAlso Available:  \nVictoriographies – A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing, 1790-1914, edited by Julian Wolfreys.  \nISSN: 2044-2416  \n[www.eupjournals.com/vic](www.eupjournals.com/vic)  \nRoomscape  \nWomen Writers in the British Museum from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf  \nSusan David Bernstein  \n© Susan David Bernstein, 2013  \nEdinburgh University Press Ltd  \n22 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LF [www.euppublishing.com](www.euppublishing.com)  \n[Typeset in 10.5/13 Sabon](Typeset in 10.5/13 Sabon)  \nby Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Stockport, Cheshire, and printed and bound in Great Britain by  \nCPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon CR0 4YY  \nA CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 0 7486 4065 2 (hardback)  \nISBN 978 0 7486 8161 7 (webready PDF)  \nISBN 978 0 7486 8162 4 (epub)  \nISBN 978 0 7486 8163 1 (Amazon ebook)  \nThe right of Susan David Bernstein  \nto be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.  \nContents  \nList of Figures vi  \nSeries Editor’s Preface vii  \nAcknowledgements ix  \nAbbreviations xii  \n1 Exteriority: Women Readers at the British Museum 1  \n2 Translation Work and Women’s Labour from the British  \nMuseum 33  \n3 Poetry in the Round: Mutual Mentorships 74  \n4 Researching Romola: George Eliot and Dome Consciousness 113  \n5 Reading Woolf’s Roomscapes 147  \nCoda: Closing Years and Afterlives 184  \nAppendix: Notable Readers 196  \nBibliography 212  \nIndex 226  \nFigures  \n1.1 ‘In the Reading-Room of the British Museum’ in The  \nGraphic (1887) 9  \n1.2 Illustrations by G. 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