Elizabeth Gaskell’s second novel, Ruth, focused, as had her first, Mary Barton (1848), on a young working-class woman. However, in Ruth she makes a heroine of an unlikely figure in a seamstress who bears an illegitimate child. While other novels… Read More ›
George Meredith’s fourth novel, Rhoda Fleming, dealt with a familiar theme: the pressure society places on both genders—but especially women—to conform to unrealistic expectations. That his culture governed love relationships with laws, such as those relating to marriage and divorce,… Read More ›
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