Would it be correct to label Toru Dutt as the earliest Indian English Woman Writer? Comment

It does not appear that the writings of Toru Dutt have anything like the glimmerings of a feminist consciousness. Thus mainstream assessments of her life and work negate any possibility of interpreting her as the earliest Indian English writer whom readers might identify as articulating a woman’s point of view. Thus Padmini Sen Gupta, Toru Dutt’s biographer, has remarked, “Toru was interested, but not to a very great extent in the position and status of Indian Women. It is obvious that her short life, so absorbed in writing and scholarship, could spare little time for social reform and work”. Ananda Mohan Bose, a brilliant Bengali of the times, whom she had met often at Cambridge, went to see her at Calcutta, when the Dutts still had hopes of revisiting Europe. Toru Dutt writes:

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