Washington Irving's Misogynistic Stories

Are Washington Irving’s writings misogynistic or just in line with the times? Washington Irving and his writings are often categorized by their dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women. Washington Irving’s works are a combination of both the dislike of women as well as in line with the times of the American Revolutionary Period. In Irving’s time of writing, women were in the background and were subservient to men rather than being equal to men. If the stories were written in the twenty-first century there would be no doubt that he as well as his stories are misogynistic.
Irving’s story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, is a thrilling short story written in 1820; the masculine “dominant” spirit from the tales was a headless