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Abstract The Victorian Period ushered in 1837 and ended in 1901. It is the period when queen Victoria ascended the thrown of England. The Poets and the novelist of this period started thinking freely. The Novelist like Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens wrote a number of novels highlighting the problems happening with women in the society. They also focused the pitiable Condition of women. Hardy's novels express women's struggle for emancipation from social constraints. It is so that on marriage the control of women's property and income from women's real property, that is, property held in the form of freehold land passed under the common law to her husband. Marriage and divorce were existed in the society. Remarriage was also the system in the Victorian society. A women could be divorced on the simple grounds of her adultery or by cruelty, rape, sodomy incest or by gaming. There is another vice which was prevailed in the society was the rigid read views on marriage and the role of women in life. Most women's regarded marriage as a fixed fact of nature. Hardy himself had the personal philosophy on marriage and the marriage question. The present research paper will high light various kinds of problems relating to women.
Key words :- Emancipation of women, civilized and savage people struggle of women, Domestic injustice etc will be highlighted.
Introduction :-.
Victoria's coronation in 1837 signals the official inception o an era which we now designate the Victorian Era, Just as her death in 1901 marks its official demise. Amid the multitude of social and political forces of this age, a few things stand out clearly. It is an age of democracy, educational awareness, religious tolerance and of profound social unrest. The multitudes of men, women and little children in the mines and factories were victims of a more terrible industrial and social slavery.1
Victorian women were willing to struggle for emancipation, even if meant dying for it. Victorian women had to live under many societal constraints, which kept them subservient and shackled to their relationships. When women struck out for independence and vitality, they were crushed by an unbending Victorian society whose mores did not encourage personal growth and empowerment of women. Tess, although alienated by the...