The concern in both nineteenth-century Europe and
India about women reading novels bore more or less similar
fears. Women were seen as easily corruptible and an imaginary
world that the novel provided was seen as a dangerous opening
for the imaginations of its readers. In certain Indian
communities, it was felt that women who read novels would
leave their domestic environments and aspire to be part of the
outside world- the male domain.
This suggests that women were viewed as delicate and
incapable of being independent. They were merely expected to
marry a man who could take care of their financial needs while
they maintained his household and remained subservient to
him.
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