A new Brontë-related paper:
Mattie Coomer
AKΦ The Alpha Kappa Phi Review .Annual Journal Of Undergraduate Research In The Humanities, Volume Xi Spring 2025
The life of a Victorian woman was essentially constrained to the walls of her home. This was a home to which she had no legal right, but that she ruled from within– managing the staff, managing the moral education of the children, managing her appearance and wardrobe to ensure she had changed frocks at the appropriate intervals of the day, and managing her husband’s domestic bliss by being a refuge for him. If there was an outing, it was a social one, to the home of another woman or on the arm of her husband. This way of life seems remote to the modern woman, who has the freedom to wake up in a home that is legally in her name and that she pays for with her salary from her 40-hour work week with her advanced educational degrees. She has never even considered not being able to vote, not attending college, or not choosing her own partner. This 21st century woman is able to move through society in the ways men have long enjoyed, even if she is not entirely on the same footing as a 21st century man.
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