Abstract

Abstract:

Annie Swan's Woman at Home is more ideologically complex than the periodical's title implies. A fiction serial published in the magazine, Swan's Elizabeth Glen, M.B.: The Experiences of a Lady Doctor, dramatizes the sort of professional and personal challenges women faced in the medical profession. The serial also echoes conversations between Swan and her correspondents regarding the roles of women. Through her depiction of Elizabeth Glen, Swan shows readers that a woman does not lose her femininity by working and that she can maintain a public role in support of women's employment after marriage. Utilizing tactical conservatism, Swan offers an aspirational model of professional comportment and espouses a progressive view of women's work while still vigorously maintaining Victorian ideals regarding familial and romantic relationships.

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