Suffer And Be Still, is a powerful collection of essays. This collection, edited by Martha Vicinus documents the state of women in the 19th century Victorian England. This time period is well known as a dark side in women's modern history, because, as seen through this book, Women in the Victorian Age were discriminated, degraded and psychologically abused at this time. Men, domineering at home, in government, education and professional life dictated a woman's role. …
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…one can see that they did not work in favor of women and their position at that time. After reading collection of essays, I was horrified by the demeaning manner in which women of the time were treated. Through textual evidence and chapter citations, I have attempted to summarize the contents of this book which served to support my belief that women of the Victorian Era were degraded and discriminated in all aspects of society