When it comes to Robin Hood novels, however, representations of Marian differ from typical Victorian gender norms. One of these ideals was that women should be the ‘the Angel in the House’, confined almost exclusively to the domestic sphere. Studying popular literature is important in discussions of gender history because popular literature projected gender ideals to their readers. Penny Tinkler writes that ‘the study of popular literature, in particular novels and periodicals, has contributed important dimensions the history of girls and women in England during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’. Stocqueler’s Maid Marian the Forest Queen (1849) – unless otherwise indicated, all images have been scanned from books in my personal collection. ![]() Header image scanned from my personal copy of J. A paper read at the Women in Print Conference, Chetham’s Library, Manchester
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