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To: Ilaine who wrote (35086)	4/17/1999 6:40:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

The writers of Victorian novels presented women that married outside their class - or made character a priority within their class - precisely because these were rare exceptions to the overall rule. The rule is ably represented in the squadrons of aunts in any Wodehouse novel, or perhaps best of all by the human gargoyle in The Importance of Being Earnest (I've forgotten her name). Comic exaggeration, of course, but the archetype is clear enough, and I'm sure that the vast majority of the young women of the age went unquestioningly along with it.

To: Ilaine who wrote (35086)	4/17/1999 6:51:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Blue, why do you say that "all we have to compare it to is Jane Austen, and the Bronte sisters"?? Literature is not always a reflection of life; often, it is an attempt to improve on it. <g> Besides, 19th century England is not the 20th (going-on 21st) century Philippines, or 10th century China, or paleolithic Australia, or whatever... I think you will agree that views on just about anything (including views on marriage, love, sex, etc.) have varied widely from one culture to another and from one age to another.... Joan P.S. Correction: Perhaps you meant that "we" (Westerners? Anglo-Saxons?) have known nothing like that attitude (if one excepts Jane Austen novels). In which case, strike, as unnecessary, what I said in my last two paragraphs. :-)