Artikel
Single but not solitary : Dinah Mulock Craik's vision of a Protestant female community
Verfasst von:
Newnum, Anna Stenson
in:
Wallingford:
2013
,
308 - 302 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Newnum, Anna Stenson |
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| Jahr: | 2013 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This essay re-evaluates Dinah Mulock Craik's attitude towards female community by examining her series of essays A Woman's Thoughts about Women (1857) and her neglected novel Mistress and Maid (1862) in their periodical contexts of Chambers's Journal and Good Words. The author argues that Craik's narrative voice simultaneously acknowledges, identifies with and attempts to shape a community of single, female readers. Furthermore, her mode of address and publication practices created a support network for these women. While Victorian commentators debated the role of “surplus women”, suggesting options ranging from emigration to Anglican sisterhoods, Craik advocated pragmatic changes based on single women's financial and emotional needs. Although she eschewed political sisterhood, Craik valued female communities that were based on a middle-class Protestant belief in the saving power of work. In addition, by depicting single women's diverse emotional experiences, she combated the stereotype of the angelic spinster prevalent in the religious press where she published Mistress and Maid, while still promoting single women's social value. | |
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