Hi,
I’m writing a project on how pregnancy is depicted in Victorian era literature and I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations on any books. So far, l’ve read Wuthering Heights, Far from the Maddening Crowd and about to read Ruth. Does anyone have any other recommendations? Thanks!!
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The Yellow Wallpaper, a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilpin, isn’t explicitly about pregnancy, but it’s widely considered inspired by her own postpartum depression and that can be read as subtext.
Adam Bede by George Eliot
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Tess of D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Margaret Oliphant – Innocent: a tale of modern life
The law and the lady – Wilkie Collins
The clever woman of the family – Charlotte Yonge
Tess of the d’Urbervilles