![]() ![]() Muriel Spark in her era updates the classic 19 th century feminist heroine Jane Eyre-a shy and plain governess living in an isolated house-into a dynamic 20 th century woman-an exotic, good looking assured witty teacher who moves freely about a large city and holidays alone on the continent. Behind it, however lie two centuries of struggle for the recognition of women's cultural roles and achievements. Female writers, though, have been struggling for their identity since they picked the pen to raise their own voice, directly or indirectly, implicit or explicit. Women themselves are taught in the process of being socialized to internalize the reigning patriarchal ideology and so are conditioned to derogate their own sex and to cooperate in their own subordination. ![]() As an author and moreover, as a female author, Muriel Spark developed a stunning authorial control with an insight and detachment. ![]() A wholly original Muriel Spark became a popular novelist at the age of forty three. She tried to release her women characters from confinement to gender role. She not only stood to be proud of being a female but embraced feminism as an ideology in the sense of a consciously held set of beliefs which is aimed not only at understanding the world but at changing it with dimensions of awareness. _ In Postwar era Muriel Spark emerged on the monitor of English fiction as a strong intellectual female novelist. ![]()
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