... overflowing with drama, humour, and an endless variety of vivid characters and plot complications, nonetheless spare nothing in their portrayal of what urban life was like for all classes. Emily Bronte's (see Bronte, family) single novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), is a unique masterpiece propelled by a vision of elemental passions, but controlled by an uncompromising artistic sense. The Victorian writers exhibited some well-established ... ...

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... 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 class i...

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... 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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... love story as she criticises them harshly, but this passion is obviously one of the most compelling and memorable aspects of the book. It is not easy to decide whether Bronte intends the reader to condemn these lovers as blameworthy or to idealize them as romantic heroes. Class status may be responsible for keeping Heathcliffe and Catherine apart. Catherine's decision to ... ...

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... is free to move wherever he desires. Through various experiences, an orphan learns to establish an identity of his own, and it is through these various experiences that Dickens and Bronte illuminate the social and moral conflicts faced by many during the Victorian Era in England. ...

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