In his The Subjection of Women, John Stuart Mill argues that men of the Victorian era have enslaved the minds of women. In order to gain women’s sentiments, Mill argues, the “masters” of women provide for girls to be brought up in the belief that “womanly” character is the opposite to that of men. Consequently, many Victorian women lived as submissive, lesser-willed, queens of the domestic space. Author Elizabeth Gaskell, however, challenges the idea of women as “angels of the house” in Industrial…
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