Weber (gender studies, Indiana U.) examines the tensions built into Anglo-American Victorian representations of gender, fame, and professionalism, noting that fame constituted a significant public achievement that often had complex and vexing consequences for women. She is concerned not so much with famous people as with the phenomenon of fame itself, especially how the gendered connotations attached to celebrity both limited and ultimately authorized new codes of femininity and womanhood in a transatlantic Victorian worldview. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)