Explain any three popular themes on which women in England wrote novels in the nineteenth century
Three popular themes on which women in England wrote novels in the nineteenth century were as mentioned below : Many novels were about domestic life. Jane Austen give us a glimpse of the world of women in genteel rural society in early nineteenth century. Some novels dealt with women who broke established norms of society before adjusting to them. Such stories allowed women readers to sympathise with rebellious actions. In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre published in 1874, young Jane is shown as independent and assertive. While girls other time were expected to be quiet and well behaved, Jane at the age of ten protests against the hypocrisy of her elders with startling bluntness. She tells her Aunt who is always unkind to her : “People think you a good woman but you are bad…. You are deceitful! I will never call you aunt as long as I live.’
