WOMAN vs SUPERWOMAN Should we study ‘ordinary’ or ‘extraordinary’ women? Ananya Saraf Erica Templeton
The female writer, Dorothy Wordsworth, is often affiliated with her sibling – a household name in the sphere of poetry. Although she influenced many works of William Wordsworth, she lacked great ambitions for individual recognition or publication. The exploration of her place amongst the pantheon of females in literature, therefore, serves to illuminate the problem with characterising women into the binary terms of ‘ordinary’ and ‘extraordinary’. She conversely settles in the non-categorising “or”, where female texts can be considered without the presence of gender constructs, more importantly focusing on the literature itself. 56
