Review: Love Among the Archives: Writing the Lives of Sir George Scharf, Victorian Bachelor by Helena Michie and Robyn Warhol

Talia Schaffer is Professor of English at Queens College, CUNY and Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of Romance’s Rival: Familiar Marriage in Victorian Fiction (2016), Novel Craft: Victorian Domestic Handicraft and Nineteenth-Century Fiction (2011), and The Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England (2001). She has coedited a special issue of Victorian Review, “Extending Families,” with Kelly Hager (2013); published a collection called Literature and Culture at the Fin de Siècle (2006); produced a scholarly edition of Lucas Malet’s 1901 novel The History of Sir Richard Calmady (2003); and coedited Women and British Aestheticism with Kathy A. Psomiades (1999). Schaffer has published widely on Victorian familial and marital norms, disability studies, women writers, material culture, and popular fiction. She is currently working on a project that adapts the feminist philosophy of “ethics of care” into a method for reading social relations in Victorian fiction.