In conclusion, the progression of women being accepted in society has rapidly grown since the 18th century. We can see this progress of women in society through the rights, roles, and equality of females in literature. Back then, women were only around to be wives, mothers, and part of the background or setting. Now, females can be a wife and not be considered the "weak" one. A mother can stay home or go to work, it doesn't matter. Just being part of the background or setting is no longer something females deal with thanks to women like Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Virginia Woolf who took a stand for not just themselves, but all women in general. Without those women this would have been a "very, very sad and dismal world,
