"This work of reference on Victorian fiction captures the full range and depth of the Victorian novel. With over 900 biographical entries, more than 600 novels synopsied, and a wealth of background material on the publishers, reviewers, and readers of the age, the Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction is the fullest account of the period's fiction every published. Now in a second edition, the book has been revised and enlarged, and a generous selection of images have been included to illustrate various aspects of the Victorian publishing, writing, reviewing and reading worlds. In its totality, this is the most complete anatomy of this richest of literary fields currently available."--BOOK JACKET.