Titlebook: Women in the English Novel, 1800-1900; Merryn Williams Book 1984 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1984 Engli

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Scott,century he remained enormously popular, the reading public revered him, and he had a strong influence on some of the great Victorian novelists, notably the Bront?s and George Eliot. Novels written much later in the century very often echo his work.

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Women Novelists of the Early Nineteenth Century,nd proclaiming their complete satisfaction with the place which society assigns to them.’. Broadly speaking, this was true when she wrote it in 1851 and went on being true throughout the century. Most women novelists accepted things as they found them and several insisted in public that women were t

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The Male Image of Women,a queer thing, half-angel, half-doll,’ Charlotte Bront? complained.. R. D. Blackmore’s . (1869) embodies many male fantasies about women. It is fashionable for men and boys to despise them — ‘creatures of a lower order, only good enough to run errands for us, and to nurse boy-babies’. (Chapter 9) Th

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,The Bront?s,s for women published a few years earlier,. we can easily see why. Women were not supposed to feel or show violent emotions, or to fall in love without encouragement, or to defy men, and Bront? heroines do all these things. Even in Charlotte’s unimpassioned first novel, ., there is a flicker of female resistance:

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