INDUSTRIAL IMPACTS ON WOMEN OF VICTORIAN AGE: INVESTIGATING FEMALE IDENTITY IN CHARLES DICKENS’ WORKS
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industrialization, Victorian Age, female identityAbstract
This article inspects and discusses female characters of Charles Dickens’ works and the factors contributing Victorian Age women identity through some selected works. It unfolds through the perceptions of women in Victorian period: their main role is society. The research mainly highlights the impacts of industrialization on British women’s conditions. Furthermore, this paper shows the way the fictional works authored by Charles Dickens have depicted the social injustice happening in Great Britain during the period.
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