«Empathetic Speakers of the Age»: the Work of Women Writers of the 1850s

The article is devoted to the little-studied phenomenon of «women’s» prose 1850s — most mature period in creative evolution female writers. authors’ attention focused on issue emergence this phenomenon, as well problem artistic originality works fictional women. study attempts characterize authors genre aspect. corpus studied may be particular scientific interest many them have not been reprinted since publication.