Luddism, Medievalism and Women's History in "Shirley": Charlotte Bronte's Revisionist Tactics

Women and myth narratives in Charlotte Brontë's shirley

“…[24] In her study of female paternalists, Rosemarie Bodenheimer explains that a revival of social paternalism, a reaction to moral duty rather than supply and demand, occurred in the Victorian period in response to the effects of a capitalistic market. Moses Barraclough and Noah o'Tim's represents a reversion to the paternalistic/patriarchal authority of the (male) master class.…”