You’ve Read the Novel (Now Read the Footnotes)

I just ran across this article from the New York Times in 2007 about an annotated version of Pride and Prejudice creatively entitled The Annotated Pride and Prejudice.  The writer strangely lumps Austen in with the Victorians, but besides that,

Research Exercise 2: reviews of Phoebe Junior

What did Victorian readers think of Phoebe Junior? And how would we go about finding the answer to this question? Ideally (perhaps) we would chat with some Victorian readers; since we can’t do this, we need to find written records