Their Good Woman Is a Queer Thing: Dependent Females in the Novels of Charlotte Bront??

This thesis is an examination of women's roles in Victorian England through analysis of female characters in the novels of Charlotte Bront??, including "Jane Eyre," "Shirley," and "Villette." By advocating employment, education, personal capability, and balanced marriages, the novels of Charlotte Bront?? aimed to help change the ways in which Victorian society viewed their women and the ways in which Victorian women viewed themselves