Why Was It Significant That Novels Had Female Readers in the Eighteenth

question 34

Multiple Choice

Why was it significant that novels had female readers in the eighteenth century?

• A) Novels enabled women's literacy rates to surpass those of men.
• B) Without women, the novel would not have persisted as a genre because men at the time did not read novels.
• C) Novels opened new psychological horizons beyond women's sheltered lives.
• D) An occupying activity in itself, reading novels kept women from becoming writers.
• E) Novels filled women's heads with dangerous fantasies.

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