Is the Reader-Response criticism of literary theory applied in the novel The French Lieutenant's woman? What are some examples?

The Reader-Response mode of literary criticism is
applicable to ANY piece of writing.  While reading a dense novel like The
French Luitenant's Woman your mind was in constant engagement.  When a reader
is thinking about a book, there are lots of things that are happening in the mind, and
paying attention to those responses and perhaps actively thinking about how the author
is writing in a way to make the readers react a particular way is reader-response
criticism.  Reader response criticism is just as the name implies -- a thoughtful
approach to noting how you as a reader are responding to a text.  As you read and take
note of your reactions to characters or events, or you ask yourself questions about the
text, you are engaging in reader-response criticism. Here are few specific examples of
responses:

• What does the title suggest the work
  will be about?


• What is the signficance of the opening
  chapter? Am I drawn in?


• What do I like or not like about
  the major and minor characters?


• What do I think of the
  writing style?  React to things like vocabulary, syntax, strucure of chapters, choice of
  narrator.


• How does the author want me
  to react to specific characters or situations?  How does the author
  manipulate me?


• What are my
  predictions?


• Do I notice any use of irony? symbolism?
  motif?  Do I like it?


• Am I satisfied with the
  ending?


• What makes the work memorable? important?
  meaningful?


• What did I like about the work?  What
  frustrated me?

As you can see, the questions
are all opinion questions based entirely on a person's individual reaction or response
to the work.  That is the essential issue of this type of
criticism.