Women in the Literary Market 1800-1900

New Women
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Towards the end of the nineteenth century, "new woman" novels reflected larger social debates over new occupations and votes for women. Plots of these novels often include: marriage as an economic and social (and sometimes loveless) contract; the rights of women to their own desires outside the bounds of family; and the defeat of oppressive conventions. Women depicted in these novels often resist traditional marital or social roles and forge new relationships of their own.

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introduction
early role models
entering the literary market
learned poets
getting into print
charlotte bronte and george eliot
sin and sensation
new women
education
journalism
activism
L.T. Meade
the three volume format
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