Summary and Critique

Critique: I agree that, in early 1890s, the literature was supposed to be morally uplifting based on the arguments put across by editors such as A. E. Scudder. This article is of use in the history of women and literature simply because it gives information on how white middle class women of 19th and early 20th century were being discouraged from any activities that related to the development of their bodies, as well as their minds. It is true that women were cherished like kids because the society even discouraged them from intellectual and physical development activities.