A Level English Literature (OCR): Women In Literature Section A Thematic Quotes and Context

A Level English Literature (OCR): Women In Literature Section A Revision Notes

all books/literature to be aware of for the course
key quotations and relevant knowledge from each book in themes such as sexuality, education, religion, marriage, domestic violence/rape/abuse, motherhood…

E.g.,
Domestic duty and Angel of the domestic sphere:

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte, 1847
“it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing the piano and embroidering bags” – most explicit reaction to that women should be content with a merely domestic life within 19th century society.

Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
‘Make this home happy, so that you may be fit for homes of your own’ – Marmee
"I want my daughters to be beautiful, accomplished, and good.”