Arlene specialises in class and gender in Victorian culture; the nineteenth–century novel; nineteenth–century women writers; women and professions in the nineteenth century; literature and affect; George Gissing; and Charles Dickens. She is currently completing a major project on middle–class women and work in Victorian literature and culture.

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