Reviewers will say, By comparison, S. Weir Mitchell is a complete hack and mockery of the literary arts. Yes, they will.

There's nothing original... nothing original as deeply as I sense you're wanting to find it. Everything has been done and the period of time you're contexted in has very predominant issues that are almost manditory to include in any plotline. There's no rip-off about that. What's going to hook a reader is how the material and characters are connecting to them.

in Victorian art, the carelessly tossed gloves
symbolize absent-mindedness or possibly compromised virtue

I didn't know that!