Romantic poetry and prose
4) Women writers and feminist ides: the rise of literacy amongst women, equality ideas Jane Austen, Mary Hays.
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Scottish historical novelist and poet; wrote: ballads, narrative poetry, and verse tales,
novels. He wrote Waverley, a novel, which did not name its author (got success). Over the next years, he wrote a
number of novels, each with a historical setting. He maintained the anonymous habit he had begun with Waverley. He
became unfamos, when Austen's star rose.
Jane Austen is considered merely an entertaining "woman's novelist" in the 19th century. She was seen as the major
English novelist of the first decades of the 19th c.
Austen wrote about upper-middle class society and women's role in it. The society is secure in its values, privileges
and snobbery. Her created society defines itself in terms of land, money and class: Praises good conduct, manners, sound reason,
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