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Women and Femininity
If there is anything we hate more than having to wear shoes in a restaurant, it's cinching up a corset so tight you pass out on your way to the car. The roles and appearances of women in the 19th century—especially young, wealthy ladies—take center stage in A Great and Terrible Beauty,and are one major reason the foursome in this story thirsts for power and freedom. Every moment of their lives is public and game for judgment, and they all desperately want a break from social expectations.
Young women are treated like property in this book because they are given no power over their own lives and are presumed to be incapable of independence.
Life is easy for wealthy English ladies in the 19th century because they have very little to be responsible for besides looking pretty and being quiet.
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