... but unfortunate women, and many writers advocated that they should be given the same social standing of their employers. (See K. Hughes, "The Victorian Governess" if you're interested) From reading Charlotte Bronte's correspondance whilst working as a governess to the White and Sidewick families in the early 1840s, it is clear that she felt exactly the same way. She hated any task or ... breeding place her on par with any other middle-class women. Such views would not be regarded as radical in any way in 1847 when the novel was first published. Bronte's essential conservatism on the cla...

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... for the rich, upper classes. Educational and employment opportunities for women were limited. These inequalities stimulated a spirited debate about women's roles known as the "Woman Question." Writers as diverse as Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Florence Nightingale complained that middle class women were taught trivial accomplishments to fill up days in which there was nothing important to do. In these classes ... ...

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