“[“Mariana”] elaborates a sense of desolation . . . domesticity is emptied of all solace” (James Eli Adams).

What are the similarities and differences between Tennyson’s portrayals of enclosed female characters in “Mariana” and “The Lady of Shalott”? What account of early Victorian femininity, its qualities and limitations, emerges from these poems?

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