Author(s): Dr. K. Lalitha Bai

Abstract: In the middle of the 19th century the fiction of women novelists in English obtained a separate identity and many renowned women novelists like Jane Austen, George Eliot, Bronte Sisters, and Virginia Woolf proved greater than men qualitatively. They established their own great tradition. Through their novels they described their powers, their inspirations, their weaknesses and their self-realization. Indian women writers writing in English have raised their voice against gender bias and male chauvinism in the patriarchal Indian society. In fiction there is a plentiful expression of feminine sensibility. Indian women novelists have obtained a remarkable place in English literature. Through their novels they introduced the culture of India to the world. Even though in India women are considered as inferior they have proved themselves that they are not less intellectual than their male counterparts. Through their novels the women novelists have vividly portrayed their feminine sensibility.

Keywords: Women writers, gender bias, self-realization, patriarchal, feminine sensibility

Article Info: Received: 27 May 2025; Received in revised form: 19 Jun 2025; Accepted: 23 Jun 2025; Available online: 29 Jun 2025

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.103.102