She’s In Charge: The Brontë Sisters - FemMetal - Goddesses of Metal - Promoting women in Metal and Rock

She’s In Charge: The Brontë Sisters - FemMetal - Goddesses of Metal - Promoting women in Metal and Rock

England in the mid-nineteenth century is not remembered for its freedom, but rather as a period of systemic silence for women. Society operated on the doctrine of separate spheres, where a woman’s existence was legally and socially confined to the home. Once a woman stepped into the public eye or attempted to claim professional authority, she risked total social exile. The law essentially erased a woman’s identity upon marriage, and the cultural…