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How successful is Dickens in his portrayal of women? Dickens has been represented (along with William Blake and D.H Lawrence) as one who championed the life of the emotions often associated with the the 'feminine.' Yet some of his most important heroines are totally submissive and docile.

How successful is Dickens in his portrayal of women? Dickens has been represented (along with William Blake and D. H. Lawrence) as one who championed the life of the emotions that belong to the "feminine". Yet some of his most important heroines are simply bearers of the household keys and the basket of domesticity or are totally submissive and docile. Dickens, of course, had to accept the conventions of his time. Clearly the Victorian problem...