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This paper compares feminist concerns and strategies in selected 18th-century and 20th-century women writers in English literature. It situates early women’s writing as “proto-feminist” — negotiating authorship, sexual politics, and economic dependency within patriarchal structures — and contrasts this with the explicitly politicized, theoretically informed feminist writing of the 20th century, which foregrounds subjectivity, language, and intersectional identities. Close readings of representative texts illuminate continuities (domestic critique, narrative self-fashioning, gendered surveillance) and ruptures (the emergence of consciousness-raising, formal experimentation, and intersectional awareness). The study argues that while 18th-century women laid the discursive and narrative groundwork for later feminist practice, 20th-century writers transformed those foundations into critical and experimental modes that reframed womanhood, power, and language.
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feminist criticism, 18th century, 20th century, women writers, narrative voice, domesticity, intersectionality
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"“Voices across Centuries: A Comparative Study of Feminist Expression in 18th-Century and 20th-Century Women Writers in English Literature”", International Journal of Science & Engineering Development Research (www.ijrti.org), ISSN:2455-2631, Vol.10, Issue 10, page no.a676-a682, October-2025, Available :http://www.ijrti.org/papers/IJRTI2510067.pdf
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