PASSION LOST

"Anderson is talking about something that matters, something that most of us will have thought about, in one way or another."
--Globe & Mail

"A lively, readable history."
--Halifax Daily News

"Anderson does an excellent job . . . [with] many juicy anecdotes she has dug up for our reading pleasure . . . Entertaining . . . salient and poignant."
--National Post

"Thoughtful . . . and readable."
--Quill & Quire

"Playful yet insightful."
--Vancouver Sun

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"Patricia Anderson answers the question that so many of us have on our minds these days--'What's happened to passion?' . . . a refreshing, entertaining, and very readable account of how . . . true intimacy seems harder to find than ever. If you're wondering how this happened and what can be done to restore the passion, this is the book to read."
--Josey Vogels, nationally syndicated sex and relationships columnist, and author of Dating: A Survival Guide From the Frontlines and My Messy Bedroom: Love and Sex in the 90s

"Anderson argues convincingly that we can . . . create a culture that celebrates and embraces true intimacy, commitment, and passion."
--Barbara Coloroso, parenting educator and author of Kids Are Worth It! Giving Your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline and Parenting Through Crisis--Helping Your Kids in Times of Loss, Grief, and Change

"Any couple about to get married, divorced or live together should first have a look at Passion Lost so they can know what they have inherited!"
--Kim Martyn, BSW, Sexual Health Educator (Toronto Public Health)

WHEN PASSION REIGNED

"Anderson shatters the myth of Victorian prudery . . . An elucidating frolic by an incisive historian."
--A.L.A. Booklist

"Victorian passions were much more exciting than ours are . . . When Passion Reigned is . . . always warm-hearted and . . . Anderson marshals her case well."
--New York Review of Books

"Creative . . . engrossing . . . A revealing window onto the private lives of our Victorian forebears."
--Publishers Weekly

"Continually engaging and brisk prose . . . A delightful tour of love and lust in the Victorian era."
--San Francisco Review

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"A rollicking, subversive, and massively entertaining account of Victorian passions . . . This is a brilliant and aware book."
--James Kincaid, author of Annoying the Victorians

"A bold and instructive excursion to parts that other historians seldom reach. This is a pleasure to read."
--Peter Bailey, author of Leisure and Class in Victorian Britain

THE PRINTED IMAGE AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF POPULAR CULTURE

"An ambitious study . . . tracing the explosion of the printed image in popular media (penny magazines, novels, broadsides) . . . Anderson asserts that by the 1840s there was a transformation from a popular to a mass culture, crossing economic and social classes. This book . . . is well written and generally convincing, and her enthusiasm . . . shines through."
--Epilogue

"Insightful . . . This book is very valuable."
--Journal of Popular Culture

"Written with great clarity . . . impressive."
--Nineteenth-Century Literature

"Closely argued and brilliantly researched . . . This excellent and original book should be required reading."
--Victorian Review

"Detailed and engaging"
--Victorian Studies

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