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Influence, Agency, and the Women of England: Victorian Ideology and the Works of Sarah Stickney Ellis
<p>This dissertation discusses the works of Sarah Stickney Ellis in the context of Victorian culture and argues that Elliss ideas about women, which have frequently been described as 'anti-feminist' by twentieth and twenty-first century scholars, were often progressive and even proto-feminist. The …
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Praise and Blame: The Rhetorical Impact of Nineteenth-Century Conduct Manuals
… in nineteenth-century conduct manuals, Sarah Stickney Ellis’s <i>The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits</i>, and Harriet Martineau’s <i>Household Education</i>. In examining the rhetoric of the conduct manuals, this researcher has identified the audience, the …
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'All Other Faculties Must Be Silent': Victorian Motherhood and the Divided Female Self
… four examines three ""fallen woman"" poems, Sarah Stickney Ellis' The Mothers of England, and Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth, arguing that the motherhood as redemption trope used in these texts conceals a vision of motherhood as punishment. Chapter five discusses Olive Schreiner's fiction and …
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Ignorance and Marital Bliss: Women's Education in the English Novel, 1796-1895
… Rousseau's Sophy with the feminine ideal from Sarah Stickney Ellis's conduct books. Charlotte Brontë's Villette (1853) juxtaposes Ellis's ideal women's education with Wollstonecraftian models from Alexander J. Scott's Suggestions on Female Education (1849) and an anonymous review of Sarah …