When was Pariksha Guru published?

• 1882

• 1887

• 1892

• 1897

Social changes in Britain which led to an increase in women readers.

What actions of Robinson Crusoe make us see him as a typical coloniser?

After 1740, the readership of novels began to include poorer people.

Novelists in colonial India wrote for a political cause.

Outline the changes in technology and society which led to an increase in the readers of the novel in the eighteenth century Europe.

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The Oriya novel

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Jane Austen's portrayal of women

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The picture of the new middle class which the novel Pariksha-Guru portrays.

Discuss some of the social changes in nineteenth-century Britain which Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens wrote about.

Summarise the concern in both nineteenth-century Europe and India about women reading novels. What does this suggest about how women were viewed?