... approach. The strength of Charlotte Brontë's position as a feminist in literature is open to interpretation, but the impact she left was certainly a solid one. Liberation was a limited blessing for women in the Victorian era. Natural careers available were rarely more adventurous than domestic roles such as maids ... how society has manipulated our judgement of women, rather than a reflection of women in general. To be selfish as a female of the Victorian era is not necessarily a terrible thing, a point expressed in Elizabeth Gaskell's biography: "A woman who revealed an independent spi...

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