Women's contribution to the development of the English novel: 1621-1818
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Date
1939
Authors
MacCarthy, Bridget G.
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University College Cork
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Abstract
Women's contribution to literature is no arbitrary or artificial distinction. However much the reformer may welcome, or the conservative lament, the growth of a harmonious sharing of ideals between men and women, that growth has been a hard-fought struggle. It has been an escape from a prison, which, when it did not entirely shut out the greater world, at least enclosed a little world of education meant for women, literature adapted to the supposed limitations of their intellect, and a course of action prescribed by the other sex. To show how the literary efforts of women developed and justified their claims to free activity is the purpose of this thesis.
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Pastoral Romance , The epistolary novel , The domestic novel , The Gothic novel , The didactic novel , Jane Austen , Pastoral romance , Women's contribution to English literature
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MacCarthy, B. G. 1939. Women's contribution to the development of the English novel: 1621-1818 . PhD Thesis, University College Cork.