And born out of this consciousness is their ambition – to gain agency, to get an education and work, as well as the feminist ideas. But what all of them have in common is the discontent with the conditions of their lives and the consciousness that these conditions are because of them belonging to the female sex. The movement becomes highly organized, more aggressive and public, ultimately leading to the spread of feminist ideas in the twentieth century.įurther, Miller mentions how the modern woman in Edwardian England could be anyone – young, old, married, unmarried or divorced, of any class. The one factor largely responsible for the rise of modern woman is the suffragette movement, which started in the nineteenth century, and gains momentum during the Edwardian period. The Edwardian era is a time of radical change and it becomes fundamental in the lives of women, who are – becoming more independent, receiving new opportunities with respect to education and employment, and also gaining more agency in terms of taking their life decisions.
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