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Essay Archive - Jane Eyre, The Feminist Tract"
Jane Eyre, The Feminist Tract"
In 1837 critic Robert Southey wrote to Charlotte Bronte, "Literature
cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be. The more
she is engaged in her proper duties, the less leisure will she have for it,
even as an accomplishment and a recreation," (Gaskell 102). This opinion
was not held by only one person, but by many. Indeed, it is this attitude,
one that debases women and their abilities, to which Charlotte Bronte
responds with Jane Eyre. The purpose of Jane Eyre, not only the novel, but
also the character herself as a cultural heroine, is to transfo....
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