Representation Of Women In Margaret Drabble's Early Novels

A famous female writer in modern British literature,Margaret Drabble is acclaimed as "women's novelist" because her works deal for the most part with the lives of a new generation of intellectual women.The thesis chooses Drabble's four early novels created before 1980,Jerusalem the Golden,The Garrick Year,The Millstone and The Realms of Gold,to study how Drabble represents the middle-class females' living conditions of the 1960s and 1970s of England.The textual analysis in this study is made in light of contemporary feminist critical theories.By analyzing the female images of these novels and exploring Drabble's feminist writing in her works, the thesis finds Drabble a conscious feminist writer who ingeniously combines her themes and techniques into an artistic whole of representation.