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This paper examines how the influence of the arts on the development of the mid-Victorian population was a powerful due to the nation's move out of recession and into a capitalist frame of mind where wealth was celebrated as a sign of worth. Through an examination of literature and art of this time such as George Hicks triptych "Women's Mission" and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, it looks at how the culture of the mid-Victorian era proved to advocate a step back for woman from the public realm into the safety of an idealized, supposed domestic bliss.

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"A quite different heroine is depicted in Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White. Collins presents two heroines: Laura Fairlie and Marian Halcombe. Laura is the story's heroine in that she is the person whose life the other characters revolve around, and whose happiness is the ultimate goal of the plot. She is the picture of a traditional female lead in that she is exceptionally beautiful and captivating that the hero, Walter Hartwright, falls in love with her at first sight. Collins devotes more than a page of description to every aspect of her countenance. However, Laura is not the real heroine of the novel, comparative to her sister, Marian."

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