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How did print culture affect women in the nineteenth century India ?

(i) Lives and feelings of women began to written in particularly vivid and intense ways. Women's reading, therefore increased enormously in midle - class homes. Liberal husbands and fathers began educating their women folk at home and sent them to schools.

(ii) In East bengal , in the early nineteenth century. Rashsundari Debi, a young married girl in a very orthodox household, learnt to read in the secrecy of her kitten. Later, she wrote her authobiography Amar Jiban, which was published in 1876. It was the first full length autobiography published in the bengali language. Soon, a large segment of it was devoted to the education of women. In the early twentietth century, journals, written for and sometimes edited by women, became extremely popular.