• Charlotte and Elizabeth : guardians of the female mind in Pride and Prejudice 

    Alafaireet, Lamia (Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
    In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's depiction of womanhood is both varied and expansive. A woman can be gentle in spirit, incapable of finding ill in others. Daughters can be impossibly “silly” in their romantic endeavors. ...