Which major themes were taken up by the women in their novels ?

The concern in both nineteenth-century Europe and India about women reading novels bore more or less similar fears. Women were seen as easily corruptible and an imaginary world that the...

The three reasons to worry about the effects of the novel on readers were:  (i) The cities were worried about the immoral influence of the novels. They took people away from...

(i) In a serialised novel, a story was published in instalments, keeping the suspense for the next issue.  (ii) Serialisation allowed readers to relish the suspense, discuss the characters of a...

Jane Austen: (i) Her novels give us a glimpse of the women's world in refined rural society in the early 19th century Britain. (ii) It portrays a society which encourages women to...

(i) Jane Austen's novel gives us a glimpse of the world of women in rural society in the early nineteenth century. (ii) Her novels make us think about a society which...

(i) Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (ii) Charlotte Bronte's: Jane Eyre (i) They encouraged women to look for good marriages and find wealthy or propertied husbands. (ii) They also wrote about women who...

(i) Dickens wrote about the terible effects of industrialisation. (ii) Dickens criticised the idea that human beings were treated as simple instruments of production. (iii) Dickens spoke about the exploitation of children/...

Novels connect people of common interest in the following ways: (i) Novels created a common interest among scattered and varied readers. (ii) Readers were drawn into their stories and could identify with...

(i) In the earlier stages, women began to write stories, poems, etc. (ii) Their writings allowed for a new conception of womanhood. (iii) Stories of love showed women who could choose or...

(i) In the early decades of the 20th century, women in South India began writing novels and short stories. (ii) A reason for the popularity of novels among women was that...