1. Victorian literature
Another example of the way women were represented in the mid-Victorian period is in poetry such as Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott" who is bound by the web she weaved within the confines of "Four gray walls and four gray towers", (p755, line 15, Romantic Period Verse), but once she broke free from the web to join the "delights" and the "magic sights", to follow Sir Lancelot, (lines 64, 65), her fate was sealed and she cried "The curse is come upon me", (line 116), as she is led to her death. ... Some women in the Victorian period may have had to turn to prostitution in the period of th...
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