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Originally Posted by DixieGal
You describe exactly the reason I despise Victorian lit so badly. Even (gasp!) Austen. It is clearly fictional and unrelated to reality, but it always has underlying morals lessons. Morals that make me want to scream, "You stupid girls! Why do you devalue yourselves like that?"
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It makes me appreciate the books that DON'T do that more. Like
Woman in White-- it's got some problems still, but Marian is such a wonderfully different character that I really like it. Or Henrik Isben's
A Doll's House, which is actually a play but still really good. Or
The Awakening, which was written by a woman (Kate Chopin) and is REALLY good. Or The Yellow Wallpaper, which was also written by a woman (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)!
Now that I think about it, I wonder if books written by Victorian women would be in general better about women's issues? I haven't actually read that many; I'm going to have to explore more, I think.