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Jane Eyre, The Feminist Tract"
In 1837 critic Robert Southey wrote to Charlotte Bronte, "Literature
cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be. The more
she is engaged in her proper duties, the less leisure will she have for it,
even as an accomplishment and a recreation," (Gaskell 102). This opinion
was not held by only one person, but by many. Indeed, it is this attitude,
one that debases women and their ....
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.... of Jane Eyre in which we see the quest for social betterment through
her relationships.
Bronte herself experienced the social limitations of the nineteenth
century. At this time "respectable women had few options in life beyond
marriage, education of children, and domestic service," (Magill 747). She
ventured to explore her own literary abilities and wrote Jane Eyre, a novel
which "served to articulate the new sense of self that in Bronte's time was
still e ....
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