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Consider how Katherine Mansfield explores the vulnerability of the single woman in Edwardian England
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Consider how Katherine Mansfield explores the vulnerability of the single woman in Edwardian England Katherine Mansfield explores the vulnerability of the single woman through her characters Ada Moss, once a contralto singer, in the story 'pictures' and the young girl in 'the little governess'. Although they are very different in character, the two women are brought together by the fact that they are both single women and poor. There are clear similarities throughout both stories in the way in which they are treated by people; men and women alike, as Mansfield guides us through their day. It is important to consider the situation of the two women in relation to other women in Edwardian England. Many things deemed acceptable today would then have been unconventional then. It was far less common to be an older woman and un-married. Without men women were powerless in the social and political arena....
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