Men Defending Women’s Rights: Reality or Paradox:

Women’s position in fiction and non-fiction has drawn the attention of many writers. This book is an analytical reading of Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre to diagnose to what extent a male writer is similar or dissimilar from a female writer in defending the rights of women. The comparative study and the analysis of Collins’ and Brontë’s novels elucidate that although Collins challenged women writers in the way they write and both Collins and Brontë share common ideas, their portrayals of female and male characters, the narrative techniques and other textual elements greatly help to unravel who is a bona fide defender of women’s rights. The book culminates with evincing that Collins, despite his challenge to female writers, did not succeed in becoming as the female writer, Brontë in supporting the rights of women. Therefore, any reader needs to revise the works of male writers supporting the rights of women to scrutinize whether their claim is real or contradictory.