Orphan of the Castle and Memoirs of Modern Philosophers.
This thesis will examine a variety of Victorian media to better understand the influence that negative portrayals of fallen women and prostitutes had on the creation of the Contagious Diseases Acts (CD Acts). The CD Acts were introduced in the 1860s and allowed for the medical and police inspection of prostitutes in garrison ports and towns. At the very core of these regulations was the desire.
Representation of an “Angel in the House” and “Fallen Woman” in Elizabeth Gaskell’ s Ruth A THESIS In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for The Sarjana Degree Majoring Literature in English Department Faculty of Humanities Diponegoro University Submitted by: HIRADITYASARI A2B 006 049 FACULTY OF HUMANITIES DIPONEGORO UNIVERSITY SEMARANG 2011 PRONOUNCEMENT The writer honestly.
In the nineteenth-century society, there were two types of women: Fallen women and Good women i.e. pure women. Good women were seen as pure and clean i.e. virgins until the marriage. And their bodies were seen as temples that should not be used for pleasure. Their role was to have children and take care of the house. Any woman who did not fulfil these expectations was seen as a fallen one. Is.
This thesis explores Elizabeth Gaskell’s engagement with and intervention in issues surrounding seamstress labourers, particularly as manifest in her three texts with eponymous seamstresses: “Libbie Marsh’s Three Eras” (1847), Mary Barton (1848), and Ruth (1853). Many scholars have emphasized that representations of seamstresses, including symbolic, proliferated in Victorian culture.
This dissertation investigates how the concept of stigmatising the female body is challenged in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing, Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Eimear McBride’s A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, and its demeaning effect on women.
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The Fallen Woman has as its starting point the stories of the unmarried mothers who applied in the middle decades of the nineteenth century to have their babies admitted to and brought up in the Foundling Hospital (which continues today as the children’s charity Coram). The women made their cases by submitting forms to the Governors of the Hospital in which they told the stories of their.