Valedictorian Era Women

The Victorian Age took place during the reign of Queen Victoria from the year 1837 to 1901 in the United Kingdom. It was a period of mass progress in art, science, writing and colonial expansion. During this time, women also began to play a big role in literature. Women writers, painters, and actors began to take a big role in society. However, the struggles of women during the Victorian age made up more than half of the literary works that involved or were written for or by women. Although Victorian literature depicted many women struggles during this time, subordination, derogation and deception were the three major ones that ultimately made many women struggle.
“The subjection of women to men being a universal custom, any departure from it quite naturally appears unnatural” states John Stuart Mill in chapter one of the “Subjection of Women” (Mill 1106). Stuart Mill begins by stating that one of the biggest obstacles from humans is the subordination of on one person to another. According to John Stuart
During the Victorian age, deception or the act of deceiving someone was a special struggle for woman. Woman were often seeing as an easy target to deceived during this time due to their very little knowledge and freedom due to subordination. The “Goblin Market”, is an example of how goblin men sold goblin fruit in exchange of a piece of hair to an innocent character named Laura and almost caused her life due to curiosity and the goblin’s deception. The phrase “Their offers should not charm us, Their evil gifts would harm us” show that during the Victorian age, the deception of men often harmed women either physically or mentally (Rossetti 1497). Christina Rossetti’s words through this poem, depict the struggle that women faced during this time. The act of deception can form even more struggles in a woman’s life, as she will struggle to trust anybody else that shows her are act of