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cjgl-2650	Ward, Ian	Things Little Girls Have No Business to Know Anything about: The Crimes of Aurora Floyd	2011	49	.pdf	application/pdf	17544	840	63	As the Westminster Review noted in 1864, sensation novels such as Aurora Floyd put the institution of marriage... now upon its trial. 2°4 There is a resonance here with Nancy Armstrong's broader observation that the mid-Victorian novel acted as an empowering agent of nineteenth century feminisation, as well as Kate Flint's related supposition that such literature shaped particular communities of women readers.205 As to the more particular community of sensation novel readers, as Showalter argues, the very popularity of the genre suggests that many women readers recognised themselves in the outspoken heroines.	cache/cjgl-2650.pdf	txt/cjgl-2650.txt