Creative Evolution

When women started to write for publication in the eighteenth century they were obliged to see themselves as somewhat freakish, certainly audacious. They enlisted in an age-old male profession and felt it necessary to justify their temerity. They wrote to improve conduct and manners, to spread abroad those refinements which it was part of the function of their sex to foster in the family. The woman's expressed vision at that time was in some degree a corrective to the man's, and it may well be a mistake to imagine a secret vision lurking behind the published words. These were not modern women without a modern woman's opportunities, since otherwise their lives would have been intolerable. We should not readily postulate a disturbing gulf between their inner thoughts and their utterances.KeywordsWoman WriterCreative EvolutionSocial SceneNarrative LiteratureMale AuthorThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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