... was also "inevitable that financial considerations should continue to play a very large part in marriage plans" . In this sense we should now refer to Defoe's Moll Flanders, where the heroine moves within this environment and comes to express: "[...] that marriages were the consequences of politick schemes for forming interests, and carrying on ... business, and that Love had no share, or but very little in the matter."(p.83). Moll Flanders is a story about the evolution of a woman from a low to a mid-class status. Since she was a child her only desire was to become a ... in one word: ma...

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... . 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. Jane Eyre's 'Reader, I married him' close to the end of Charlotte Bronte's novel (1847) that bears the character's name, shows the reversal of roles and the ... ...

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