She is not "a romantic figure" but this is probably a product of her poverty as Eliza's features are "no worse" than the other ladies at Convent Garden but is "very dirty" in comparison to them. ... Edward refutes "I don't want any romantic hassles this week". ... Higgins is comfortable as a "confirmed, old bachelor" and the presence of a woman would "upset everything", so he would also prefer to have no romantic hassles in his life either. ...

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Thus it is not unusual that, as the product of such revolutionary parents, Mary Shelley would harbour the same feminist and Romantic ideologies and subsequently challenge the ideologies of the patriarchal society in which she lived. ...

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"A woman," Caroline Bingley of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice affirms, "must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages."1 Her comment demonstrates the rigid view that members of the upper class had regarding the requirements a woman needed to be called...

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