: Susan Bernstein ,Confessional Subjects: Revelations of Gender and Power in Victorian Literature and Culture(Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1997), xiv + 206 pages, £27.95 (ISBN 0 807 84624 4) ; Monica Cohen ,Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel: Women, Work and Home(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), xi + 216 pages, £35 (ISBN 0 521 59141 4) ; Carolyn Dever ,Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud: Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), xi + 233 pages, £35 (ISBN 0 521 62280 8) ; Tim Dolin ,Mistress of the House: Women of Property in the Victorian Novel(Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997), ix + 153 pages, £32.50 (ISBN 1 859 28184 2).