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The literary activities of prominent nineteenth-century English feminists have long been a subject of great interest. During this period, writing used to be considered as inappropriate for the women but it provided them with an opportunity to carry out a literary rebellion against the deliberate marginality which they faced both as women and as writers. Excluded from social, political, and economic activities, writing remained perhaps the only way through which they could assert themselves. This work presents broad discussion of the diversity and complexity of Victorian feminism by exploring...

Charlotte Bronte has been considered by critics as the foremost authors of the nineteenth century, important precursor to feminist novelists, and the creator of intelligent, independent heroines who asserted their rights as women long before those rights were recognized by society. Charlotte Bronte novels are of high significance due to her rebelliousness against conventions, her unwillingness to let her heroines bow down to conventions and for creating a social awareness and responsibility among women of that era by the power of her pen.