When Laura Curtis Bullard wrote the novel Christine in 1856, she
created one of antebellum America's most radical heroines: a
woman's rights leader. Addressing the major social, political, and
cultural issues surrounding women from within an unusually overt
feminist framework for its time, Christine openly challenges a
social and legal system that denies women full and equal rights.
Christine defies her family, rejects marriage, and leaves a job as
a teacher to embark on her career, rewriting the script for a
successful nineteenth-century heroine. Along the way, she recreates
domesticity on her own terms, helping other young women gain
economic independence so that they, too, have the autonomy to make
their own choices in love and life. One of the triumphs of the
novel is the author's ability to create a sympathetic heroine and a
fast-paced plot that intertwines vivid scenes of suicide,
destitution, and an insane asylum with theoretical and political
discussions-so skillfully that the novel successfully appealed to
otherwise hesitant middle-class readers.
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