Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge are merely three of many examples of great male writers who began their literary careers with the luxury of guidance and example, an advantage the women writers would seek elsewhere. ... Writing was still considered a male-dominant art form and in general women were still looked upon as the lesser of the two sexes and expected to maintain the domiciliary roll in society but this view would begin to change in the mid to later part of the nineteenth century. ...

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