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EN333: DAY 2
What you need to know before we get going
THE NUTS & BOLTS
Who are the sensation novelists?• Braddon, Collins, Reade, Wood
Some more popular authors too• C. Bronte and Dickens
WHAT BROUGHT IT ON
Rose to popularity in Great Britain in mid 1800’s
Response to “novel of manners”• Propaganda?• Middle-class guide books• Live the “proper” British lifestyle
Pair-Share: What are some Victorian norms and
values?
LET’S COMPARE
With the person next to you, create a Venn
Diagram for life in 1860 vs. life in 1950.
Men: industrious, bread winners
Women: “angel in the house”
ANGEL IN THE HOUSE
Remain in the homeTend to domestic duties
• i.e. order around the staff
Be polite
Be calm
Dote on husband
BUT…
Overabundance of single women• More women than men born in previous generation• By 1891, 882,000 excess women (Kramer, David. "George
Gissing and Women's Work: Contextualizing the Female Professional." English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 43.3 (2000): 317.)
Not independently wealthyCame from modest homesModerate educationForced to work
• Menial and low-paying
SURPLUS WOMEN
INDEPENDENCE!Many liked it
• Took the opportunity to improve employment prospects and other advancements for other women
Pair-Share: What might be some other advantages and disadvantages of being a single women in the 1860’s be?
THE OPPOSITION
Fuddy-duddiesWomen with jobs AND independence from men?!?!Can’t let women enjoy the single lifeWhat to do?
• Use literature
LIT OF THE EARLY-MID 1800’S
Plot focused around angelic-looking and acting women• Keeping house• Tending children• Doting on husband
Submissive
Never angry
Polite
Fashionable
SO NOT REALITY
Literature could not dispel all crime form the worldSensation novels turned the notion of “angle in the house” upside down
FOR NEXT CLASS
Respond to the discussion on the wiki
Be sure to have read Maniac ch. 1-3
for Feb. 3