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Meredith's Diana Warwick, living on the fringes of society because she is separated from her husband and has to support herself by writing, realises near the end that an adventuress is what she is. Wilkie Collins drew several women who battle alone against the world Magdalen Vanstone in No Name, Lydia Gwilt in Armadale, and Mercy Merrick in The New Magdalen. But all of them have some redeeming qualities, and all are saved eventually through loving a man. The consistent adventuress, like Becky, cares for neither men nor children, and is unlikely ever to repent.
8 One of the most striking examples of daughterly devotion in literature is Madeline Bray in Nicholas Nickleby. Her father has squandered all his money, so 'this young girl had struggled alone and unassisted to maintain him by the labour of her hands . . for two long years, toiling by day and often too by night, working at the needle, the pencil and the pen, and ... as a daily governess' ,9 although her friends offer her a home if she will give him up. Dickens is, of course, disgusted at the unnatural phenomenon of a man who lets a woman support him, but he still sees Madeline's conduct as saintly, not perverse.
Mill, who in 1867 raised the question for the first time in Parliament and examined the philosophical arguments in The Subjection of Women (1869). By this time a London National Society for Women's Suffrage had been founded and over the next thirty years, while women in practice got more and more freedom, the cause steadily gathered support. Inevitably, not all women agreed. Queen Victoria wrote privately in 1870: The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights', with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety .