Elizabeth Browning's Changed Role Of Women In The Victorian Age Using Poetry
During the course of the nineteenth century including the Victorian Age, the rights and roles of women were widely controversial and debated. The controversy and debates relating to the Victorian roles for women were particularly centered on middle-class women. There were concerns on whether these women should be educated, allowed to work in other settings other than the home, and have a political voice. As these debates continued, many Victorian women such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning made significant contributions to the roles and rights of women through their literary works. As one of the most prominent writers during this period, Browning made powerful and engaging contributions based on her belief that educational training was a crucial factor towards the success of women in the society. Through poetry, Elizabeth Browning explored and challenged the conventional rights and roles for women using spirituality and religion.
Britain's social and political agendas in the nineteenth century were dominated by the Woman Question, which basically focused on the roles and rights of women in the Victorian Age. Through her works, Browning sought to address this social and political issue as shown in the challenging and combative poems she wrote regarding the need for gender equality. Browning's poems are largely viewed as an expression of...
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