When I was deciding what kind of approach I should use for the novel of Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre, I was reading the author's CV and I was surprised that she published her novel just as some of her other works under the pseudonym Currer Bell. ... " (260) Charlotte Brontë gave her heroine empowerment in a patriarchal society which denied women education. ... Charlotte Brontë expressed her own convictions about the status of women in Victorian society by creating proud and strong Jane. ...

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The Private Lives of One Half of Humanity Emily Dickinson's advice to "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant "" exemplifies the theories put forth by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar in "The Female Swerve."" This concept that nineteenth century women authors have strayed from the predominantly mascu...

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