giving voice to women’s experiences and concerns. Such concerns included inadequate education (e. g. in Charlotte Lennox’s Female Quixote, 1752), insufficient useful activity (e. g. in George Eliot’s Middlemarch, 1871-2), economic dependence (e. g. in Frances Burney’s Cecilia, 1782, Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, 1811), legal disempowerment (e. g. in Anne Bronte’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 1848), moral double standards (e. g. in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Ruth, 1853), and many more. In addition to thematising specifically female experiences, women writers have also been taking active part in public discourse on more
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