A woman's lot: realism and gendered narration in Russian women's writing of the 1860s

This article examines the issue of realist literary narration portrayed as male privilege in Russian women's writing of the 1860s, specifically in Avdot'ia Panaeva's novel A Woman's Lot (Zhenskaia dolia). A Women's Lot was published in 1862, under Panaeva's male pen nam...