WOMEN WITH A PAST AND THEIR SACRIFICIAL ROLE IN VICTORIAN DRAMA
WOMEN WITH A PAST AND THEIR SACRIFICIAL ROLE IN VICTORIAN DRAMA

Summary/Abstract: "The Victorian period – especially in its final years – marked a tendency towards constructing a new identity for women and womanhood. Nineteenth century literature in Britain was largely created by, about and – to a great extent – for women, but it was certainly entirely different from the “chick literature” of our days. The already-canonised great literature of the past had outlined several female models: the romantic young lady in search of her soul-mate and the woman as housewife/mother/slave, whose only desire was to love and serve her man. The other types, such as the adventuress, the woman for sale and the criminal were rarely presented, but now and then they made stunning appearances, such as in the works of Daniel Defoe or Aphra Behn"[...]

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