This trilogy was published in a single volume with added material (Epilogue) in 1986; it originally appeared as the separate volumes The Country Girls (1960), which was the author’s first published novel; The Lonely Girl (1962); and Girls in Their… Read More ›
gender roles in fiction
Analysis of Suffragist Beatrice Harraden’s Ships That Pass in the Night
Suffragist Beatrice Harraden had written short stories and one novel before publishing Ships That Pass in the Night, but that work brought her fame as a writer. An example of sentimental fiction, it depicts the doomed love of two patients… Read More ›
Analysis of George Meredith’s The Amazing Marriage
The last of George Meredith’s novels, The Amazing Marriage resembles his previous works in its defense of women against men’s errors. In his fiction and real life, Meredith declared man to be in need of woman, who could educate and… Read More ›
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