When George Meredith published his 1885 novel, Diana of the Crossways, women readers welcomed his heroine as representative of recent social reforms. The novel reflects its era’s obsessive interest in the breakdown of standards, which had been part of a… Read More ›
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Literature of the American Women’s Movement
The fact that the emergence of American women’s literature coincided with the birth of the American women’s movement is no mere coincidence. At a time when becoming an author was seen as a male prerogative, the women’s movement gave American… Read More ›
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