'I want', said Bella Rokesmith to her husband, 'to be something so ...
'I want', said Bella Rokesmith to her husband, 'to be something so much worthier than the doll in the doll's house.' In the profusion of Dickens, the phrase might pass unnoticed.
But Ibsen remembered it. The demand for a better sort of woman was not a new one: Swift had urged it vehemently in eighteenth-century England, Montesquieu in France.
But the curriculum was still dominated by the economic uniformity of women's
existence and the
doctrine of the Two Spheres.Every girl was prospectively the wife / partner of a gentleman, a workman, or something in between.
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Intellectually, the overlap was steadily increasing, and it was for this common ...
Intellectually, the overlap was steadily increasing, and it was for this common province of taste, criticism, intelligence, and sympathy that wise mothers trained their daughte
London was still refusing to let them sit for matriculation. The collision ...
London was still refusing to let them sit for matriculation. The collision of the Two Spheres is a Late-Victorian theme, almost a Late-Victorian revolution: in Mid-Victorian England only