As women grew as literary writers by reading and responding to their contemporaries, their literary tradition grew with them. ... 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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