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‘Women’s rights will never grow into a popular agitation,’ Mrs Oliphant concluded in 1856, ‘yet women’s wrongs are always picturesque and attractive. They are indeed so good as to make novels and poems about, so telling as illustrations of patience and gentleness, that we fear any real redress of grievances would do more harm to the literary world than it would do good to the feminine.’
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Judith Fetterley, The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978), pp. xxi, xxii.
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Sanders, V. (1996). Conclusion. In: Eve’s Renegades. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24935-0_8
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