Titlebook: Women in the English Novel, 1800-1900; Merryn Williams Book 1984 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1984 Engli

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Women in Society and in the Novel,y, Mary Wollstonecraft’s ., had appeared as early as 1792, it was ridiculed at the time; and for many years afterwards, except in extreme radical circles, there was very little interest in feminist ideas. The history of women in the nineteenth century shows hardly any change before the reign of Quee

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Jane Austen,years earlier, and it had a particular point for the young women of her generation who were unable to read it at the time. Her aim was to parody a sister novelist, Mrs Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823), whose tales of terror were enormously popular and widely imitated around the turn of the century. We get