... of the Victorian novel are women; and the heroines they created began to throw off the victim's role that male authors had created, from Moll Flanders, Pamela, and Clarissa onwards. Jane Eyre's 'Reader, I married him' close to the end of Charlotte Bronte's novel (1847) that bears the character's name, shows the reversal of roles and the decision-making capacities that the new ... pseudonyms (Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell) in order not to draw attention to the fact that they were women. Charlotte and Emily Bronte are in may ways both opposites to Jane Austine. They are districtly romantic...

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... of the sisters. The book only sold two copies. (Charlotte and Emily Bronte, p.36) Emilys First novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), a story within a story, did not gain immediate success as Charlotte's Jane Eyre, but it has acclaimed later fame as one of the most intense novels written in the English language. The story is narrated by Lockwood, a gentleman visiting the Yorkshire moors, and ... ...

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... is seen as an alien figure is because of the fact that the family is presented in the novel as a closed system. When Earnshaw brings Heathcliff into the system, like Jane Eyre, he is an intruding stranger. We notice that names are constantly repeated in the novel, as if there were no changes through the generations, or they were acting in the ... ...

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