Abstract
Victorian society laid much emphasis on the moral righteousness of women and
therefore expected of woman to be an Ideal Woman. The Victorians made proper
arrangements of education and tutoring to inculcate the four cardinal virtues of
True Womanhood in Victorian woman. As indicated by Barbara Welter (1966),
the four cardinal virtues, which a lady was required to have keeping in mind the
end goal to become a True Woman, were “piety”, “purity”, “submissiveness”
and “domesticity”. The paper contests the idea of the True Womanhood through
an array of instances from literature, religion, and socio-political practices. It
also explores Victorian patriarchal politics of the legend of True Womanhood to
reveal the reason for the rise and fall of the “Ideal”.
Fasih ur Rehman, Yasir Hussain. (2016) Victorian Patriarchal Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Legend of True Womanhood, Putaj Humanities And Social Science, Volume-23, Issue-2.
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