Role of Women in Victorian Eng

The Role of Women in Victorian England The evolving role of women in Victorian England is the main subject of George Gissing's The Odd Women. Gissing's novel deals with the struggle that many English women faced in the later part of the nineteenth century as they struggled for independence and finding means to support themselves. Prior to the women's equal rights movement, which began in the middle part of the 1800s, women were either expected …showed first 75 words of 1800 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1800 total…have to take larger premises … Miss Barfoot was never in such health and spirits - nor myself. The world is moving" (Gissing 332). Here Rhoda is telling Alice Madden about the success that Rhoda and Mary have experienced in their endeavor to educate and liberate women. Rhoda's quote is a representation of the success that the feminist movement was having and how the role of women was slowly beginning to change as the twentieth century approached.