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Women, Writing, and the Industrial Revolution

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From: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Date: 19991001
Author:Anonymous

Women, Writing, and the Industrial Revolution, by Susan Zlotnick.

This book will surprise many people: though written by a professor of English, it does not argue that capitalism was simply a force for evil in the l9th century. Indeed, Zlotnick deals with the seemingly strange fact that many female novelists in the l9th century, such as Elizabeth Gaskell, wrote in support of capitalism and the industrial revolution. One of the standard charges against l9th-century capitalism is that it put women to work in factories. Zlotnick shows how easy it was to put a different spin on this fact; ...

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