Aphra Behn's The Rover
1) Angelica consider the financial negotiations that one makes before marring a prospective bride the same as prostitution . Do you agree. the desire to do meaningful work might, poignantly, be the strongest urge a late eighteenth- to early nineteenth-century woman knew, propelling her into marriage with a man who could employ her skills. But this narrative altered because, starting in 1855, feminist activists popularized the idea that middle-class women suffered from being denied work. In Middlemarch , Can You Forgive Her ? , and The Clever Woman of the Family, heroines traverse the same plot: an inevitably doomed vocational marital future. This “suppressive hypothesis” made it impossible to depict a successful vocational marriage. The fantasies of female empowerment we saw in the neighbor plot had become unwriteable in the latter half of the century. Marriage had become a private, romantic dyad, inimical to the social orientation of familiar ma...