I also admit to being confused, because... well, while I haven't read MUCH Victorian literature, that which I did read didn't feature meek and cloistered women. Ehh?
(That and, even if it was absolutely the cultural ideal, the cultural ideal never applies to everyone--and it's, of course, extremely difficult to know how people operate in private. Add on marycatelli's point that it's a whole country over several days and... well... yeah.)
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Date: 2011-07-25 02:44 pm (UTC)(That and, even if it was absolutely the cultural ideal, the cultural ideal never applies to everyone--and it's, of course, extremely difficult to know how people operate in private. Add on