AidaGlass
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Persian-Iran
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What does familiar narrative mean here? Is the text saying women had a talent for writing texts that everyone could relate to?
"Women," wrote E. S. Dallas, "have a talent for personal discourse and familiar narrative, which, when properly controlled, is a great gift, although too frequently it degenerates into a social nuisance."24 Such an approach was particularly attractive because it implied that women's
writing was as artless and effortless as birdsong, and therefore not in competition with the more rational male eloquence.
Women's Literature in the 19th Century: British Women Writers | Encyclopedia.com
What does familiar narrative mean here? Is the text saying women had a talent for writing texts that everyone could relate to?
"Women," wrote E. S. Dallas, "have a talent for personal discourse and familiar narrative, which, when properly controlled, is a great gift, although too frequently it degenerates into a social nuisance."24 Such an approach was particularly attractive because it implied that women's
writing was as artless and effortless as birdsong, and therefore not in competition with the more rational male eloquence.
Women's Literature in the 19th Century: British Women Writers | Encyclopedia.com
