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The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth (review)

208 incompatible. Their thinking dictated that the female doctor should either be “married” to her career of medicine or, once romance entered the picture, should give up medicine for marriage. Either way, as Sparks notes, the marriage plot “overdetermined” their choices (138). Sparks analyses in depth Annie Swan’s Elizabeth Glen, M.B. (a two-book series) in order to contrast it with a more radical text, Margaret Todd’s Mona Maclean, Medical Student, the sole text covered by Sparks’s book that tentatively suggests that the roles of wife and female physician need not be mutually exclusive. Only a few omissions mar this otherwise well-developed study. In her emphasis on Eliot’s connections to positivism, Sparks neglects to mention that Martineau translated Auguste Comte’s work into English. And, in developing her overview for chapter 6, she skips the paragraph needed to tie Collins’s selected short story back to her main point and does not address how the failed marriage in Charlotte Yonge’s Magnum Bonum seems to contradict her chapter’s larger argument. Perhaps more problematically, the structure of chapter 5 does not make some of the necessary connections to keep the book’s larger structure in place. Even with these minor flaws, however, The Doctor in the Victorian Novel offers much of value to scholars in Victorian studies.