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WOMEN WRITERS IN VICTORIAN ERA
Nilufarxon Xusnidin kizi Xasanboeva
Student of Chirchik state pedagogical university Scientific advisor Eldorbek Erkin ugli Khamitov
ABSTRACT
A number of women writers lived and worked in literature during the Victorian era. This article gives information about some of Victorian women writers and their position in society.
Keywords: Victorian period, female poets, Bronte family, George Eliot.
INTRODUCTION
During the time when Queen Victoria ruled from 1837-1901, cities grew and became crowded with poor living conditions, many people had to work long hours in factories. This period named the Victorian Era. During the time in literature, books and stories often showed regular people, difficult lives, and important lessons about right and wrong. They were designed to do more than provide fun and amusement. People in the Victorian era liked hero stories and traditional art. The books written during the Victorian era talked a lot about these topics. There are writings from more than 60 authors, including such well known writers as Harriet Martineau, Laetitia Landon, Frances Trollope, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Florence Nightingale, Elizabeth Gaskell, Barbara Bodichon, George Eliot, Christina Rossetti, Margaret Oliphant and more[1].
FINDINGS
One of them Charlotte Bronte. Charlotte Bronte's dad, Patric Bronte, was a poor Irish man who became a clergyman in a small, isolated town called Haworth in Yorkshire. Charlotte's mother passed away in 1821 when she was only five years old. Her mother's sister, who was her aunt, raised the family carefully, but without much love or understanding. Charlotte, along with her two younger sisters Emily and Anne, went to a few boarding schools where they got a better education than most girls did at that time [2]. The schools were tough places to be. During that time, there were very few jobs for women. The Bronte sisters spent their lives at home, and only had some work as governesses or schoolteachers occasionally. The sisters didn't have much money and were shy and lonely. They liked to draw, play music, read, and write. Their being alone caused them to feel lonely and separated from others. Early
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growth of their ability to imagine things. In 1846, the sisters wrote a book of poems together using male names. They worked under the names Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Not long after, all three sisters wrote and published their first books. Charlotte Bronte's well-known book "Jane Eyre" was released in 1847 using her pen name Currer Bell [3]. It is a book that criticizes society. In this book, a lot of focus is given to the education system. Charlotte Bronte knew a lot about it because she was a teacher. She thought that education was really important, and that if schools and teaching were better, many social problems could be solved. This book is a true story about the author's own life. The author used the main character to remember her awful time at boarding school and her job as a governess in a big house. Rochester is a made-up character in the book who is in charge of the house. "Jane Eyre" was very popular and did very well. Charlotte Bronte wrote three more books. The first book, "The Professor", was published in 1857 after she died. The second book called "Shirley" was released in 1849. The most well-liked out of these three books, "Villette," came out in 1853 [4]. It is about Charlotte's sad time working as a governess in Brussels. She had believed she would have more exciting and better experiences. So, her work is based on real life, but also includes things that people wish for. She was brave enough to study people's lives more closely than most people did at that time, but because of the shyness of her era, she couldn't fully explore her ideas.
George Eliot is the name Mary Ann Evans used when she wrote books. She was a very important English writer during the Victorian times. Mary Ann Evans was born in Warwickshire in 1819. This is where she was from and the year she was born. She went to very good private schools and had tutors who taught her well. After her dad died in 1849, she went to Europe and made a home in London. She wrote for big magazines. Smart people from Britain they thought she was one of the smartest people of her time. Before she started writing made-up stories, she translated a lot of difficult German books about thinking into English. When Mary Ann Evans started to write stories in 1858, she used the name George Eliot. This showed how seriously she took her new job as a writer. Many women writers in Victorian England were successful and used their real names. But people thought they only wrote novels for women. When Evans started writing books using a different name, she was showing that she wanted to be as good as the best writers of her time. She was the smartest and most mature woman writer of the 1800s. Her stories are about the middle-class life she had when she was growing up in the countryside. George Eliot wrote kindly and wisely about regular English folks who lived in the countryside and small towns. She wrote about serious issues in how people should act and how society works. Her first
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book called "Adam Bede" was published in 1859. It is a sad love story. Her books "The Mill on the Floss" and "Silas Marner" take place in the countryside. Her book "Ramola" is a story set in old-time Florence. George Eliot wrote a book called "Felix Holt, Radical" in 1866 [5]. It is her only book about politics. People think it is not as good as her other books. George Eliot's most important work "Middlemarch: A Study of Small Town Life" (1871-1872) [6] is a long story about many complicated people and how they affect and respond to each other. Her latest book "Daniel Deronda" shows that the author understands and cares about Jewish culture. She was so focused on understanding the complex structure that it didn't stop her from being creative. She was able to write in English like Balzac. In George Elliot's writing, she wants to make the novel more interesting by adding new ideas and understanding the characters better.
CONCLUSION
In the Victorian era, women wrote literature but used men's names such as Currer Bell and George Eliot. The atmosphere and small number of women in the literature of that time caused it. Even so, the writers mentioned above became popular not just now, but also when they were alive.
REFERENCES
1. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-s-writing-of-the-victorian-period-1837-1901.html
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte Bront%C3%AB
3. Miller, Lucasta (2002). The Bronte Myth. London: Vintage. ISBN 978-0-09928714-8 pp 12-13
4. Reid Banks, L. (1977). Path to the Silent Country. Penguin. p. 113
5. https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Eliot
6. The Bloomsbury Guide to English Literature, ed. Marion Wynne-Davies. New York: Prentice Hall, 1990, p. 719
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