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Female Writers’ Anxiety of Authorship Observed in Jane Eyre
KE Hui, ZOU Jian-ling
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2020.08.005
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
Female writers have always been in an inferior status to male writers in the early age. This situation does great harm to many female writers both physically and psychologically, which can also be fully displayed in their works. Jane Eyre is a feminist canon written by Charlotte Bronte. As an autobiographical novel, Jane Eyre contains the dilemma and the anxiety of the authorship of female writers in 19th century. Those could be mainly embodied by the masculine pseudonym and dual writing strategy, the portrayal of heroine Jane, and another important female character Bertha.
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