This article is devoted to the problems of women and society in the novels of Charlotte Bronte. Since Charlotte Brontë's attention to gender in her novels is a great opportunity to get a better look at the life of a woman in Victorian times. Upper and middle class women were usually separated from the commercial and intellectual world. Women's mindset and role in society at large was of considerable interest to Charlotte Brontë, as she herself was a woman striving to transcend the limitations

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... her era. Brontë, however, was a courageous woman who was not afraid to address the "Women's Question" in her writing, and she did it so masterfully that her novels are still the epitome of female power and ability.