... women in pre 1914 England with reference to two poems written in this period."" In England before 1914 women's write were very limited. I will explore this through two poems by Thomas Hardy and Walt Whitman the poems being The Ruined Maid' and To a Common Prostitute' respectively. Both poems are found in the IGCSE poetry anthology (Poetry written before 1914). I will begin by ... women's rights were ignored like this then surely the poets would not have wanted to stray too far from this The first poem I shall discuss is "The Ruined maid- by Thomas Hardy written in 1901. It is written th...

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