... in politics in public, women faced exclusion from any social and public participation. The ideal woman in the Victorian Age had to stay at home, lack any sexual initiative, be selfless, and be morally accountable. She was to be the pillar of the home in both the physical and moral sense. Femininity during the Victorian Age was secondary to masculinity. The ... she exclaims, "I am half sick of shadows" (Poulson 26). It is apparent that it is the social institution of marriage that incites in the lady a desire to attain love and move away from the life of shadows. By leaving the interior ...

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