Nineteenth-century Britain was a time of great progress and reform, in British society due to industrialization and social upheaval. One of the most controversial debates were about the position of women in society. Aspects such as a wife’s right to own property, a mother’s right to custody of her children and ownership of her body, or right to vote, saw the birth of the movement for women’s rights, and the first suffragettes at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries. This was also the era of the professional woman writer, a time in which more women were writing professionally and demanded a place alongside men in the literary world.
The Bronte Sisters
One of the strategies these early women writers turned to was the use of male pseudonyms.
These have been referred to by 20th century feminist literary scholars such as Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar as…
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