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WOMEN, SOCIAL CLASS, AND THEIR RELATION AS INDIVIDUALS IN HARD TIMES

Charles Dickens , one of the most well-known authors in English literature, wrote "Hard Times", his tenth novel, in 1854. Hard Times exposes different female characters belonging to different social classes, as in the Victorian period the difference of classes was something prominent giving rise to major inequalities in the fields of education, wealth, power, working and living conditions, life-style, culture…

While before the Industrial Revolution people made all by hand, with simple machines, or with animals, when the Industrial Revolution began, things started to be done with complex, fuel-driven machines. The 19th century saw a development in the question of the place that women occupied in English society: the private sphere. This fact led to question the identity of the sexes, male and female, as well as their corresponding spheres, the public and the private sphere. Women demanded not only more political and legal rights, but also educational, economic and social opportunities. “Although petitions to Parliament advocating women’s suffrage were introduced as early as the 1840s, women did not get the vote until 1918. But prior to that, until the passage of the Married Women’s Property Acts (1870 – 1908), married women could not own or handle their own property”. Victorians, apart from being worried about legal and economic limitations on women’s lives, they were worried about the nature of woman.

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