Tolkien, The Books Tolkien, J. Mojave Books Boggs, Johnny D. The project argues that female characters are victimised by their respective narratives and authors across the Victorian era, and how this victimisation is represented sympathetically in the early Victorian age, with authors such as Catherine Crowe, Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Felix depicting female characters as oppressed by masculine forces. A delightful, sexy and fun read. Moreover, she is very much without agency throughout the book, as is foreshadowed from a pun on the very first page, when Gray tries to adorn her office with a new name-plate: Lopsided as it was, it looked, she thought, despite the simplicity of its wording, both pretentious and ridiculous, a fitting advertisement of irrational hope and ill-advised enterprise.
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