Fallen Woman in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel

<p>A sympathetic view of the fallen women in Victorian England begins in the novel. First published in 1984 this book shows that the fallen woman in the nineteenth-century novel is amongst other things a direct response to the new society. Through the examination of Dickens Gaskell Collins Moore Trollope Gissing and Hardy it demonstrates that the fallen woman is the first in a long line of sympathetic creations which clash with many prevailing social attitudes and especially with the supposedly accepted dichotomy of the ‘two women’.</p><p>This book will be of interest to students of nineteenth-century literature and women in literature.</p>