Charlotte Mary Yonge was one of the most prolific writers of the
nineteenth century. Though perhaps best known for her popular
children's books, she also wrote adult novels. Swiftly-plotted and
cleanly-wrought, Yonge's work has again gained critical attention,
in part because she writes about the predicament of
nineteenth-century women. The Clever Woman of the Family is a new
woman novel that focuses on a group of women in a small seaside
community. It is the early 1860s and British women outnumber men to
such an extent that not all women can expect to marry. Rachel
Curtis, the clever woman of the title, is an opinionated young
woman whose yearning for a "mission" in life leads to tragicomic
results. The Broadview edition contextualizes the novel's
ambivalent feminism and pro-empire sentiments with materials on
some of the most pertinent debates of the time.
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