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GASKELL'S DETOURS: HOW MARY BARTON, RUTH, AND CRANFORD REDEFINED “REDUNDANCY”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2014
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When the 1851 census reported an “excess” of some half-million women in Britain, feminists and anti-feminists quickly took to the press to debate the implications of the demographic imbalance. Yet Victorian novelists also wishing to convey and alter the “Condition of England” experienced something of a quandary: How should fiction respond to news of the imbalance, and what options could be suggested for resolving it?
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