This research indicates how she sought to reconcile her attachment to the Victorian prior along with her acceptance of a brand new society that undermined establishment and in doing so gave extra possibilities to ladies, stressed class-boundaries, prolonged tolerance, allowed the cult of enjoyment and self-assertion and published the ambiguities of respectability.
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