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The prose works composed by the ancient female writers revealed the rich images and the mental worlds of female authors. Influenced by the trend of liberation of individual personality after the Mid-Ming Dynasty, on the one hand, they were discernibly guarded by the attitude highlighting "virtues" in the compositions by female writers; on the other hand, they were reconstructed with the stance of "developing virtues" by emphasizing emotions somehow and its tradition of composition, reflecting the values which integrated both talents and virtues as well as virtues and emotions. Part of the female writers had the consciousness of "achieving glory from writing" and expected attaining immortality from their writing. They sought potential pursuit for accomplishing their individual values. Their works expressed their sympathy and pity for the unfortunate women, and were also integrated somehow with their examination and questioning on the experiences of traditional women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]