"Till This Moment, I Never Knew Myself"

This paper proposes Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex" (1949) as a possible frame for discussion of the psychological and emotional lives of women in "Pride and Prejudice" (1813) by Jane Austen and "The Portrait of a Lady" (1908) by Henry James. According to Beauvoir, a woman lives life torn betw...

The International Journal of Literary Humanities

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