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WOMEN
through the female characters in the novels Oliver Twist and Alice
in Wonderland by Antonio Pinta
CONTEXT
- Auerbach, P.63
IMPORTANCE OF
SOCIAL CLASS
THE ISSUE OF
PROSTITUTION
01 OLIVER TWIST
By Charles Dickens
AGNES
- Mother of Oliver Twist, who dies giving birth to
Oliver.
By Lewis Carrol
THE DUCHESS
- She is seen "tossing the baby violently up and
down" (Carroll, 50).
Auerbach, N .Woman and the demon: The life of a Victorian myth. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1982
Ayres, Brenda. Dissenting Women in Dickens’ Novels- The Subversion of Domestic Ideology. London:
Greenwood press, 1998
Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Class. Barnes & Noble, 1865
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