The New Woman


 
 
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The New Woman

The New Woman: The most exciting element of the novel was the involvement of women. The 18th century saw women get more leisure to read as well as write novels. Novels began exploring the world of women, their emotions and identities, their experiences and problems. Many novels were based on domestic life-a theme about which women were allowed to speak and write with authority. By the 19th century, images of women reading silently in privacy of the room were seen in many European paintings. 'A Girl Reading' is an example of one such painting by Jean Renoir. Alongwith men novelists, there were many women novelists in England who won a great name and fame as novelists. Some of the women novelists were:

  • Jane Austin : Jane Austen's "Pride and "Prejudice" gives us a glimpse of the world of women in rural society in early 19th century Britain. She lays emphasis on the importance of women in men's life.  In the first sentence of her novel, she states: It is a truth universally acknowledged , that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. The novels of Jane Austen make us think about a society which encouraged women to look for good marriage and find wealthy husbands.
  • Charlotte Bronte: But women novelists did not simply popularise the domestic role of women. Often their novels deal with women, who broke established norms of society before adjusting to them. In Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" published in 1847. This novel depicts a young girl ,Jane was an independent and assertive woman. While the girts of her time were expected to be quiet and well behaved, Jane, at the age of 10 protested against the hypocrisy of grown-ups. The practice of claiming to have higher standards or more noble beliefs than is the case is called Hypocrisy.
  • George Eliot: George Eliot was the pen name of popular novelist Mary Ann Evans . She Believed that every women could express herself by writing fiction.
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