Fancy Fair or Nonesuch Bazaar?

Abstract The conclusion narrates the fate of bazaar discourse in the twentieth century, and it revisits the three main claims of the book. First, that Victorian-era charity bazaars were distinctly feminized sites of civil society, and that the print matter surrounding them is essential to understanding women’s contributions to social reform. Second, that bazaar literature revises our understanding of the larger literary market in social reform fiction, revealing a self-critical strain that is paradoxically braided with strident political activism and realist sensibilities. Third, that depictions of bazaars within realist reform fiction invite authors to re-evaluate their social roles and aesthetic methods according to the logic of bazaar discourse.