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   English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920 43.3 (2000): 316–330. Malone, Cynthia Northcutt. "Near Confinement: Pregnant Women in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel." Dickens Studies Annual (2000): 367–385. online. JSTOR 44371995; Martin, Jane. Women and the politics of schooling in Victorian and Edwardian England (1999).

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   Ellen Moers sees women's literature as an international movement, "apart from, but hardly subordinate to the mainstream: an undercurrent, rapid and powerful. This 'movement' began in the late eighteenth century, was multinational, and produced some of the greatest literary works of two centuries, as well as most of the lucrative pot-boilers."

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   What genres were women writers in the nineteenth century?

   • At the beginning of the nineteenth century, women writers were largely confined to the genres of children's literature and poetry. The emotionalism of poetry, particularly poetry in which depth of feeling and sentiment, morality, and intuition were expressed and celebrated, was considered a "feminine genre," suitable for women writers.

   Women's Literature in the 19th Century: Introduction

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   Was the nineteenth century the era of the female novelist?

   • Instead, he reasoned, they would always be imitators and never innovators. Paradoxically, Mill would never have raised this point had women not already claimed a very important literary place. To many of his contemporaries (and to many of ours), it seemed that the nineteenth century was the Age of the Female Novelist.

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   Why did women become writers in the nineteenth century?

   • In the nineteenth century many women became writers because there was nothing else for them to do. Many began writing in childhood, literary composition being one of the few amusements, like “castle building,” as available to girls as to boys.

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   Why were women authors important in nineteenth-century literature?

   • Modern critical analysis of nineteenth-century women's literature seeks, in part, to understand the underlying reasons that women authors, especially in America, Britain, and France, were able to gain such widespread exposure and prominence in an age known for its patriarchal and often dismissive attitude toward the intellectual abilities of women.

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   At the beginning of the nineteenth century, women writers were largely confined to the genres of children's literature and poetry. The emotionalism of poetry, particularly poetry in which depth of feeling and sentiment, morality, and intuition were expressed and celebrated, was considered a "feminine genre," suitable for women writers.

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   ON THE SUBJECT OF… ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL (1810-1865) A figure of the "golden age" of nineteenth-century English literature, Gaskell is best known for her novels of social reform and ...