REMEMBERING MARGARET DRABBLE ON WOMEN'S DAY

  

Margaret Drabble is considered to be one of the most significant female writer whose novels are frequently recognized because of the problematic question of the emancipation of women protagonists treated in them. Such a feature  is especially evident in Drabble's early writings, such as A SUMMER BIRD CAGE or THE MILLSTONE.

Despite the fact that the female portrayed on the pages of these books are sophisticated, educated and self assured individuals who long for the privileged opportunities in the surrounding world, but are bound to the inevitable responsibilities for their maternity, children and households, they were written in the pre  - feminist era. It is claimed that the second wave of the feminist movement rose out of the civil Rights that reached England from America in 1968 while Drabble's first novel came out in 1963.

Margaret Drabble who is a proud woman writer of Britain, has herself lived through, participated in, and chronicled the impact of the second wave of feminism on the lives of British women during the past three decades. Through  her fiction, one can have the picture of the British society. Drabble employs the techniques of feminist meta fiction, including intrusive narrators, intertextuality, unresolved endings. Apart from all these, her female characters show themselves as powerful, characters and play very vital role in bringing the real picture of modern society. They bring  a role in the political leadership of the country. Women have come out of their households which she was confined with only. Her women are quite competitive in the modern environment.

Salutes to Margaret Drabble on the International Women's Day today.