Chartist Fiction
Subtitle: Volume 2: Ernest Jones, Woman's Wrongs
By: Ian Haywood
Edition: First edition.
Series: Routledge Revivals
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781315203669
Subjects: Fiction; Social life and customs; Social problems; Labor movement; English Political fiction; Chartism; Utopias; Romans, nouvelles; Mœurs et coutumes; Problèmes sociaux; Mouvement ouvrier; Politique-fiction anglaise; Chartisme; Utopies; Manners and customs
Description: "This title was first published in 2001. When the Chartist leader Ernest Jones emerged from prison in 1850, he was determined to capture the public's attention with a controversial and topical novel. The result of his endeavours was the remarkable Woman's Wrongs, a series of five tales exploring women's oppression at every level of society from the working class to the aristocracy. Each story presents a graphic, often harrowing account of the social, economic and emotional victimisation of women, and taken together the tales comprise a devastating indictment of Victorian patriarchal attitudes and sexual inequalities. But Jones also shows women's refusal to accept this subjugated role, and he creates some of Victorian literature's most subversive and unruly heroines. He draws on sensationalism, reportage, melodrama and political analysis in order to expose the wrongs done by and to women."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter Woman's Wrongs; title: chapter The Working Man's Wife; title: chapter The Young Milliner; title: chapter The Tradesman's Daughter; title: chapter The Girl with the Red Hands; title: chapter The Lady of Title.