Abstract: Examination of class-based constructions of the literary canon and the academy derived from standards of "respectability" and "roughness" inherited from Victorian culture; analysis of forgotten lower middle-class and working-class Victorian women writers' texts. Dissertation Discovery Company and University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "The "respectables" and the "roughs"" by Mary Ann T. Leiby, was obtained from University of Florida and is being sold with permission from the author. A digital copy of this work may also be found in the university's institutional repository, IR@UF. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation.