Domestic realism is a genre of nineteenth-century fiction concerned with the daily lives of ordinary Victorian women, also known by the names sentimental fiction or woman's fiction. The genre is reflected mainly in the novel, though short stories and non-fiction works belong to it as well, among them Harriet Beecher Stowe's Our Country Neighbors and The New Housekeeper's Manual, which Stowe wrote together with her sister Catharine Beecher.
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Notable ExampleA Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley 1 Defining TraitFiction about the daily lives of ordinary Victorian women 1 Defining Trait In the Other Atlases
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1. Wikipedia: Domestic realism
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fictional works about the daily lives of ordinary Victorian women
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An example of this style of novel is Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres
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genre of 19th-century fictional works
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Domestic realism normally refers to the genre of 19th-century fictional works about the daily lives of ordinary Victorian women.
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