As women of the modern age, we are able to make our own decisions, act and do as we please, and have the marvelous opportunity of getting an education the same as men do. These privileges that come so effortlessly in the lives of most modern women today were not always available to the women of the late eighteenth century. During this era, a woman’s role is to be subservient to a man and to exercise their morals and domestic virtues through participation and charity. If a woman does not act in the proper manner, their families would typically disown them causing some women to turn to prostitution as a means for living. Sometimes women just do not want to conform to the life society is trying to enforce on them, they want to make their own choices. In Mary Shelley’s Parvenue, she portrays the character of Fanny who is sticking to her roots and siding with her family over her knight in shining armor. In Mary Hays’ novel The Victim of Prejudice Volume 1 & 2, she depicts a woman who believes in education for women as a form of freedom and a better life. She portrayed her character Mary Raymond as having dignity, morality, and being well educated the same as men. She lived outside the norms of how a woman of the late eighteenth century should be living their daily lives. From the readings provided on the late eighteenth century, women were depicted as being unequal to men and therefore going against the norms was seen as rebellious behavior. In Mary Hays’ The Victim of Prejudice, the heroine Mary Raymond is portrayed as this radical intellectual who argues fervently for the recognition of women’s moral and rational qualities and her refusal to accept the inevitability of ruin and to challenge the prejudices surrounding her illegitimacy. Mary refuses to act out the traditional role of a fallen woman and challenges, rebelliously, the necessity to become socially invisible and submissive. She also pushed for the necessity of a better system of education for girls, and the importance of giving women without fortunes a career without 'servitude in prostitution.' Unfortunately, Mary’s social status was determined by the popular wisdom of centuries past regarding the role that women were expected to fulfill in society. This role differed a little for each level of the class structure, in the sense that every woman was considered inferior to a man and had few social and political rights. Luckily for Mary, she was raised under the protection and care of Mr. Raymond who is “a sensible and benevolent man, a little advanced beyond the middle period of life, who, for some years past had retreated from the pursuits of a gay and various life, and, with the small remnant of an originally-moderate fortune, had secluded himself in a rural and philosophic retirement (Hays 5-6).” Mr. Raymond raised Mary to be well educated which appears to be the key to freedom and a better life. Education allowed for Mary to have s