Dickens Our Mutual Friend

Gender and Money: Limitations for Women in the Victorian City If money is the ascribing of value to valueless matter, the basis of its power for evil over man is his forgetting of this fact. Our Mutual Friend is about a whole society which has forgotten. Instead of seeing that man has made money of dust and is the source of its value, this society takes money as the ultimate value-in-itself, the measure and source …

…with is the ignorance of J. Hillis Miller. It is extremely interesting to see a critical piece--written one-hundred years after Dickens published Our Mutual Friend--contain similar aspects of female oppression that, at least, existed in the historical moment of the novel and, quite possibly, in the mind of Dickens’ as well. Works Cited J. Hillis Miller, 1964. "Our Mutual Friend". Taken from Dickens: A Collection of Critical Essays. Martin Price: Editor. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 1967 MJP