... social constraints placed upon the female, including the demand for marriage. This conflict, usually with autobiographical resonance and often framed in metaphors of imprisonment, is embodied in such novels as Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847) and Villette (1853), Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847), and Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860). As much as novelists were concerned with the ... on the lives and interactions of many sets of characters in the years around Waterloo. Similarly, Eliot's Middlemarch is concerned less with the life of a single character than with the web that...

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