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The last quarter of the 19th century witnessed the phenomenon of the great participation of women in the Italian press. Due to the process of unification, Italy is now perceived as an emerging single market in which linguistic uniformity must be achieved by means of a national, and no longer local, press. The press, therefore, takes full advantage of such a political and historical conjuncture. Italian bourgeois women now represent a further expansion of the reading public, whose particular wants and likes must be charmed by interesting publications, and who must be retained as consumers of newspapers and periodicals. But the role of women does not stop with that of avid readers: women have also become a pool of potential collaborators able to contribute to the compilation of periodicals in particular. It is within the space marked by these virtual places — the editorial board, magazines and the individual columns — that decisive matches are played out for Italian culture. Here, while schools have just started the long-term task of the homogenization of the Italian language and culture, the evolutionary lines of the Italian language reach their fruition; here, within the literary field, there is an attempt to establish a balance of power between literary genres; it is here that the agonic negotiation between the literary traditions of the Italian regions takes place. As far as literature is concerned, the space framed by newspaper pages affirms the presence of many and very competitive female writers. Their prolific production enthralls their readers and publishers alike, but it is especially the quality and novelty of their contributions that captures the attention of new readers. Alongside the waning heroines of 19th-century Italian prose, we see the emergence of different female characters created by female writers. These new characters are depicted as individuals

Free to choose: Female characters in the stories of Grazia Deledda