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The Awakening (1899) is Kate Chopin’s masterful novel of a young woman who struggles to find self-knowledge and inevitably suffers the consequences of trying to establish herself as an independent spirit.

In the play A Doll’s House (1879), Henrik Ibsen examines a woman’s restricted role in the nineteenth century and the disastrous effects those limitations have on her marriage.

Lessing’s The Fifth Child (1989) is a harrowing portrait of a mother’s struggle to raise a ‘‘disturbed’’ child, raising important issues about the nature of...

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