Narnia Fernandez 
The Changing Role of Women in Fiction of the 19th Century’s History 

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Didactics – English – Literature, Works, grade: 14, 0, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, course: Development of the English Novel, language: English, abstract: The novel became the most popular genre in 19th century’s literature to depict the time’s life and social conventions. Authors in that time put often a women’s life in the center of such stories. The following essay is about how the role of these depicted women changed according to selected classic English novels. In order to answer the question I am going to analyze the women in the novels and compare them with each other, starting with the earliest one: