Question

Summarise the concern in both nineteenth-century Europe and India about women reading novels. What does this suggest about how women were viewed?

Answer 1

Explanation:

• In the 19th century when women started writing and reading novels, many people had doubt that now the women would neglect their prime role as wives and mothers. This situation would lead the families into trouble. Many men had doubts about writing or reading women's novels.
• This suspicion made cuts in communities. Hannah Mullens, author of a Christian missionary and Karuna O Fullmanir Bibern (1852), the first Bengali novel, tells her readers that she wrote secretly. In the 20th century, popular novelist Shailbala Ghosh Jaya could write only because his husband protected him, as we have seen in the case of the South, females were usually stop from reading novels.
• It all states that women were seen as individuals who should be fully controlled by men in their family and continue their traditional domestic duties as wives and mothers.

Answer 2

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Women in the 19h century Europe and India were readers and writers of novels. Novels became popular among women because these gave a new conception of womanhood.

Many people feared that now women would neglect their traditional role as wives and mothers and homes would be in disorder. It was felt that women, instead of being quiet, well behaved and remaining in the background, would become independent, assertive, in control of their lives and earn public recognition.

Writers like Rokeya Hossein in her novels showed the need for women to reform their condition by their own actions. Hannah Mullens, a Christian missionary and the author of the Karuna o Phulmonir Bibaran (1852), informed her readers that she wrote in secret.