The Victorian Period ushered in 1837 and ended in 1901. It is the period when Queen Victoria ascended the thrown of England. The Poets and the novelist of this period started thinking freely. The Novelist like Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens wrote a number of novels highlighting the problems happening with women in the society. They also focused the pitiable Condition of women. Hardy's novels express women's struggle for emancipation from social constraints. It is so that on marriage the control

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... f women's property and income from women's real property, that is, property held in the form of freehold land passed under the common law to her husband. Marriage and divorce were existed in the society. Re-marriage was also the system in the Victorian society. A woman could be divorced on the simple grounds of her adultery or by cruelty, rape, sodomy incest or by gaming. There is another vice which was prevailed in the society was the rigid read views on marriage and the role of women in life. Most women's regarded marriage as a fixed fact of nature. Hardy himself had the personal philosophy on marriage and the marriage question. The present research paper will high light various kinds of problems relating to women. Key words: Emancipation of women, civilized and savage people struggle of women, Domestic injustice etc will be highlighted.