The Image of Females in Victorian Novels
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51699/mjssh.v2i7.700Keywords:
female, image, Victorian age, novels, feature, typesAbstract
The period of critical realism was known as Victorian age in English literature. Victorian age covered the period of XIX century of Great Britain. In Victorian era women rights were limited than men. They have no rights to vote or even for studying at universities. Despite of these condition women writers tried to describe women as a new image of women in their works. They were Victorian writers. In their works we can see middle or working class of women in different cities. Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell expressed image of females in bright colors. Majority of their novels was known in English literature as a Social and Manchester novel.
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