Women's Rights Of Women During The Victorian Era

During the Victorian Period, women did not have the right to vote, sue, or own property, so obviously, they still struggled with gaining respect from men and society, in general. However, following the Industrial Revolution, women participated more and more in the paid workforce in increasing numbers.Therefore, in the last years of the Victorian Period, increased strides for women's rights really began occurring. Feminist ideas started to spread among the educated middle classes, discriminatory laws were repealed, and the women's suffrage movement gained a lot of momentum. As a result, many authors who stood up for women’s rights made sure that people knew that change was on the horizon. Authors like Charlotte Bronte and Christina Rossetti
She moves into a very large mansion and begins teaching a young French girl. The man she works for, Mr. Rochester, is very stern, and cold with her at the beginning. He is also in a different social class than her and he makes it quite obvious. Although they are completely different they quickly fall in love. Once they are about to get married, Jane learns a very dark secret of Mr. Rochester’s. Mr. Rochester is currently married to a woman, and he has her locked in a room of his mansion. His wife has a mental illness, causing her to lose her mind. Once she went insane, Mr. Rochester did not want to deal with her, so he locked her in a room and hoped he could forget about her. Mr. Rochester doing this showed how little respect he had for women. This also showed how women with mental illnesses got little to no care.
Although Jane was controlled by men her whole life, she always found a way to stand up for herself. Once she was old enough to leave the school that ruined her childhood, she did. She left so she could teach and make sure that young girls did not have to face what she did. When Jane learned about Mr. Rochester’s secret about locking his mentally ill wife in a room, Jane was obviously furious and ran