Brynn’s Reviews > The Marriage Plot > Status Update

"the hint about Victorians, Madeleine was learning, was that they were a lot less Victorian than you thought...Against tremendous odds, without anyone giving them the right to take up the pen or a proper education, Anne Finch, Jane Austen, George Eliot, he Brontes, and Emily Dickinson had taken up the pen anyway...creating new literature...playing a man's game while subverting it."