"Once a sign of economic power, reading is now the province of those whose time lacks market value."
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Women and Reading in Victorian England in The Victorian Web (2013)
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Leah Price
Leah Price (born October 6, 1970) is an American literary critic who specializes in the British novel and in the history of the book. She was Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University and founding director of the Rutgers Initiative for the Book.
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