Date of Award
2002
Document Type
Thesis - ECU Access Only
Publisher
Edith Cowan University
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Faculty
Faculty of Community Services, Education and Social Sciences
First Supervisor
Dr Jill Durey
Abstract
This thesis comprises two parts. Part One is a novel (The Fire and the Ash), set in the latter half of the nineteenth century. lt chronicles, for the most part, the marriage of a young Irish couple. Part Two is an essay entitled Victorian Women and the Law. This area of research was selected because the life span of the woman in my novel coincides almost precisely with the reign of Queen Victoria. The life of women in Victorian Britain is commonly known to have been difficult. The social dictates of the time required that they be groomed from early childhood for a life of servitude to father and, hopefully, later a husband. There was little room, apart for a small minority of exceptional women, for self-expression, other than through the domestic arts within the home.
Recommended Citation
Smith, H. (2002). The Fire and the Ash. Edith Cowan University. Retrieved from https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1644