Women's Spheres of Action

Authors

Linda C. McClain, Boston University School of LawFollow

Files

Streaming Media

Description

In a presentation for the Trollope Society, Professor Linda McClain discusses the anti heroine of The American Senator, Arabella Trefoil, and 'Women's Spheres of Action'.

Date

11-9-2021

Keywords

Anthony Trollope, fiction, conjugal restitution, analysis of women, husband hunting, marriage, modesty, custom, tradition

Disciplines

Family Law | Law and Gender

Recommended Citation

McClain, Linda C., "Women's Spheres of Action" (2021). BU Law Presentations. 2.
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/law_presentations/2

Related Publications

Linda C. McClain, A "Woman's Best Right" -- To a Husband or the Ballot?: Political and Household Governance in Anthony Trollope's Palliser Novels, 100 Boston University Law Review 1861 (2020).

Available at https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/1025