Renaissance Women Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Middlemarch by George Eliot exhibits life of English society in the Victorian era. The social class system controls every aspect of life. To maintain social standing, women must marry into respectable, wealthy families. In Middlemarch an...

Elizabeth George Speare's The Witch of Blackbird Pond shows the maturation process of a young girl from Barbados. Kit's life in Barbados is shattered when her grandfather dies. As a result of his death, Kit is forced to leave the island and her carefree lifestyle. She travels to Connecticu...

Sometime between 1499 and 1507, somewhere in England, there was born a baby girl. This girl was thought to be so small and insignificant, that no one bothered to record the date, place, or details of her birth. It wasn't until she was twelve that anything at all was recorded about her, actual...