Part one of term paper
Elizabeth Barrett Browning expresses her views on the education or lack of education of Victorian women in her verse novel, Aurora Leigh. In this work, she reflects how Victorian women are not educated for the purposes of becoming capable, enlightened human beings, but are instructed to be ornamental, informed-but not intelligent, compliant ...

Part two of term paper
... It is clear from Aurora Leigh that the education of women in this time does not encourage development of any kind but simply allows for the absorption of useless facts and skills. The education of women was such a major issue in the Victorian era that many women wrote about it. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was certainly not the only one who saw this as problem. Two other women of this time that spoke out against the “miseducation” of women were Frances Power Cobbe who wrote Life of Frances ...