Description

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A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title This book addresses the ways in which Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bront took advantage of the rapid change of their time unleashed by the Industrial Revolution in order to illustrate the inequalities women faced in the Victorian Age. It historically contextualizes all seven novels, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor, in order to investigate the themes of marriage, education, class, and work. Specifically, the author examines the ways the Bront sisters decenter marriage, call for equality in education, expose the inherent dignity of humans despite class differences, and demonstrate the ways in which increased work opportunities empowered women. Ultimately, the author argues that the Bront sisters' call for female empowerment was symptomatic of the age, and one that is realized in the latter half of the Victorian Age and beyond.

About the Author

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Taten Shirley is director of interdisciplinary studies and associate professor of humanities at Faulkner University.