In iThe Submerged Plot and the Mother's Pleasure from Jane Austen to Arundhati Royi, Kelly A. Marsh examines the familiar, overt plot of the motherless daughter growing into maturity and argues that it is accompanied by a covert plot. Marsh's insightful analyses of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglophone novels reveal that these novels are far richer and more complexly layered than the overt plot alone suggests. According to Marsh, as the daughter approaches adulthood and marriage, she seeks validation for her pleasure in her mother's story. However, because the mother's pleasure is taboo under patriarchy and is therefore unnarratable, the daughter must seek her mother's story by repeating it. These repetitions alert us to the ways the two plots are intertwined and alter our perception of the narrative progression. p Combining feminist and rhetorical narratological approaches, Marsh's study offers fresh readings of iPersuasioni, iJane Eyrei, iBleak Housei, iThe Woman in Whitei, iT