Women novelists in Victorian Era

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Women novelists in Victorian Era

The Victorian Era is known for the galaxy of female novelists. Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Mrs. Gaskell and George Eliot are in prime focus. They are also include Mrs. Trollope, Mrs. Gore, Mrs. Maroh, Mrs. Bray, Charlotte Younger, Miss Oliphant and still more.
Charlotte Bronte's all the four novels The Professor, Vilette, Jane Eyre, Shirley reflect the stresses, tensions and conflicts of the society of Victorian Era. Her novels are without idealism, without false comforts, without any implication that power over their destinies. English novels reached its highest peak in the Victorian age.
Among the women novelists Mrs. Gaskell claims to be one of the sole victims of the Victorian spirit. She published Mary Barton in 1848. She wrote to inform the prosperous middle classes, of  just what was happening in their own country.
Emily Bronte was a poet as well as novelist. Her only novel Wuthering Heights is a poem as well as novel. Longinus says : there is no other book which contains so many of hassled, tumultuous and rebellious elements of Romanticism. Wuthering Heights is a story of primal passions enacted amongst elemental environment.
With George Elliot we come to the most philosophy of all the major Victorian novelists. George Eliot's important novels are the following:  The Mill on the Floss, Adam Bede, Daniel Daronda, and Middle March. All of them are marked by extreme seriousness of purpose and execution. Samuel Chew observed: George Eliot hands was not primarily for entertainment but for the serious discussion of moral issues. Another important feature of her novels is their very deep concern with human psychology.
 Thus the Victorian period marked a special influence in the British women novelists. Bronte sisters wrote some of the most passionate fiction ever panned. Their work is charged with an emotional intensity. They earned the admiration and gratitude of many of their readers.

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