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The Charity Bazaar and Women's Professionalization in Charlotte Mary Yonge's The Daisy Chain
- SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 47, Number 4, Autumn 2007
- pp. 881-899
- 10.1353/sel.2007.0039
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As an established author musing on the changes in women’s professionalization that had occurred during her lifetime, Charlotte Mary Yonge remarked that women’s involvement in bazaars had changed the way her society thought about women earning money. By examining the depiction of a charity bazaar in The Daisy Chain, we see how she used the methods and logic of the charity bazaar to represent her own participation in the publishing marketplace.