Literature for Women in the Victorian Era

Introduction

The Victorian era seems like another world for us. However, the late Victorians were familiar with most things we use normally today. The only difference was the position of women in society. There were women during the perceptual original and independent thinking, but for the vast majority life was easier if they allowed the woman's place was in the house The status of women in Victorian society is, for many historians, is an illustration of the paradox that existed between, on one side, power and wealth of the British nation of the nineteenth century and, on the other, social misery that prevailed in the country. During this period coinciding with the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), the status of women is complicated because of a design at once singular and widespread of what was to be the "ideal feminine.”

Affect of Literature on Women

Especially at the beginning of the 19th century, was held in solitary reading, dangerous women, if not the Bible or the light of literature. Although women writers were already well-established practice, the reading was followed by women, that they do not read the wrong books (Langland,1995,34-64). It is argued that middle-class women's most widely read, because the women were busy with the upper class social spending in the evening, and the women of the working class could often lack the means or in the literature have not had time to read (Langland,1995,34-64). September issues figure was so dangerous for women because they have read in a different way than men. While the men played in their heads, the women can read and when I saw his body more susceptible to the effects of literature. Women are scolded and reading light novels, frivolous, but they banned the reading textbooks.

Famous women Writers

Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley was born on 30 August 1797 in Somers Town, a suburb of London , and died on 1 February 1851 in Belgravia (London), is a woman of letters English , novelist , short story writer , playwright , essayist , biographer and author of travel books . She is best known for her novel Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus. Her debut novel, Frankenstein or: Modern Prometheus (1818), which is still regarded as the most outstanding, and certainly the most famous work. The idea of Frankenstein was born in the summer of 1816 , the while traveling in Switzerland (near Geneva), when the spouses in the company of Byron Shelley and John Polidori diversifying the cold and rainy nights (the year without a summer ) inventing ghost stories (Nickson,2009,57-86). Thanks to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein that has become the premier creator of the Gothic novel and the forerunner of literary science-fiction. She also wrote other novels of terror, among others:

Valperga (1823)

The Last Man (The Last Man, 1826)

Transformation (Transformation, 1831)

Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Bronte is a novelist British, born 21 April 1816 at Thornton (Yorkshire), died on 31 March 1855. She wrote many piece of works addressing the lives and feelings if women. One of her ...