In what way does Gaskell argue the necessity of education for girls and women in Wives and Daughters?
Title: In what way does Gaskell argue the necessity of education for girls and women in Wives and Daughters?
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In what way does Gaskell argue the necessity of education for girls and women in Wives and Daughters?
Category: /Literature/Biographies
Details: Words: 2891 | Pages: 11 (approximately 235 words/page)
Wives and Daughters proved to be something of a departure for Gaskell. In many of her previous novels she had undertaken an examination of a social question such as the class disputes in Mary Barton or North and South, or the plight of a fallen woman and her illegitimate child in Ruth. From her earliest works her attention was always focused on the social and emotional problems of her women characters but in Wives and …showed first 75 words of 2891 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2891 total…Women and Vocation in the fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell. Greenwood Press. Connecticut. 1995.
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