Nights at the Circus and Feminist Portrayal

There are many different portrayals of the feminine body or "type" in Nights.

Fevvers 

Lizzie 

Ma Nelson and the six prostitutes (Louisa & Emily, Annie & Grace, Jenny, Esmeralda)

Madame Schreck and the five museum exhibits (Fanny, Sleeping Beauty, Wiltshire Wonder, Albert/Albertina, Cobwebs)

The baboushka and her murderess daughter

Mignon

The Princess

Sybil, the green-bowed monkey and the tigress (??)

"To sing is not to speak, if they hate speech because it divides us from them, to sing is to rob speech of its function and render it divine..." (Page 153).