Through our research, we’ve open up many different areas of conversation regarding 19th century women finding their voice. Through the use of primary and secondary sources, we’ve been able to discover how emerging feminist movement allowed Victiorian women writers to find and use their voice to fight against their oppressors, giving them a platform to defend themselves and share their views.
Through our research, we’ve been able to refine our initial research question after discovering different sources. Using the process of research, we were able to define the ‘emerging feminist movement’ in our intial statement and realized that the suffragettes in America and the UK were fighting for different rights at the time. This led us to some deeper questions such as, “Which women were allowed to have freedoms?” and “How did the freedom and independence in the novels translate to the author’s lives?” These questions certainly reshaped and challenged our initial thesis, but helped us dive deeper into the world of transatlantic women authors.