She was completely isolated from public life, which was primarily a man's domain. ... This is evident through his act of equating womanhood with seclusion by placing a domesticated woman on the tower instead of a male. Consequently, underpinning conservative Victorian views on gender roles and, "reaffirming moral basis for Victorian doubt.... These include the Knights, the lovers, the shepherd, and the girls at the market. ... In the same manner, Victorian women who chose to rebel against the gender roles assigned by society were quickly banished by the society as a whole. ...

• Word Count: 3387
• Approx Pages: 14
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Settling into the role of fertile matron-monarch, she offered a domestic image to match the booming productivity of the 1850s. ... As a description of behavior, "Victorian" signifies social conduct governed by strict rules, formal manners, and rigidly defined gender roles. ... But although she was presented as the ultimate role model, Victoria herself could not escape the contradictions of her era. ... Their literature conveys an uneasy sense that their obsession with work was in part a deliberate distraction, as if Victorians were discharging public responsibilities in order to ease nagging d...

• Word Count: 6746
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This research paper investigates how Catherine stands against Victorian male-dominant society, and how Isabel reflects traditional gender role for women. ... After Sir Walter Scott made the novel popular worldwide, it was, for two decades, seen largely as a man's genre. ... But several of the major figures of the Victorian novel are women; and the heroines they created began to throw off the victim's role that male authors had created, from Moll Flanders, Pamela, and Clarissa onwards. ... Many of the early reviewers of the novel thought that it must have been written by a man of a pa...

• Word Count: 5526
• Approx Pages: 22
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Her father, Leslie Stephen was a man of letters and her mother was Julia. ... James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are influenced by her and Virginia Woolf said that  "Richardson has invented, or, if she has not invented, developed and applied to her own uses, a sentence which we might call the psychological sentence of the feminine gender" ("Romance and the Heart"). ... Ramsayand at once to pour erect into the air a rain of energy, a column of spray, looking at the same time animated and alive as if all here energies were being fused into force, burning, and illuminating her energi...

• Word Count: 2838
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School