<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> This paper evaluates women characters of Elizabeth Gaskell0’s social novels set in England’s industrial era. While in some ways a traditional woman of her age, Gaskell assumes responsibility and nurture as a duty of men as well as women, and shows her powerful women escaping gender norms, making her worthy of more notice as a social critic than she often gains.</p></abstract>

This paper evaluates women characters of Elizabeth Gaskell0’s social novels set in England’s industrial era. While in some ways a traditional woman of her age, Gaskell assumes responsibility and nurture as a duty of men as well as women, and shows her powerful women escaping gender norms, making her worthy of more notice as a social critic than she often gains.

Gaskell’s Characters Challenging Gender Norms

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Gender Studies

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This paper evaluates women characters of Elizabeth Gaskell0’s social novels set in England’s industrial era. While in some ways a traditional woman of her age,...

Gaskell’s Characters Challenging Gender Norms

Published Online: Mar 14, 2017

Page range: 45 - 59

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/genst-2017-0004

Keywords
moral, mother, power, responsible, women, work

© by Gillian M. E. Alban

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Gaskell’s Characters Challenging Gender Norms

Published Online: Mar 14, 2017

Page range: 45 - 59

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/genst-2017-0004

Keywordsmoral, mother, power, responsible, women, work

© by Gillian M. E. Alban

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
moral, mother, power, responsible, women, work