Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s Mother: True New Woman
The role of women in literature, as in life, is continually shifting. Many women of the nineteenth century, tired to “embrace the dominant middle-class Cult of True Womanhood by constructing a poetic voice that is pious, pure, submissive, and concerned with the domestic sphere” (Cane, 151). However, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a…