Domestic realism normally refers to the genre of 19th-century fictional works about the daily lives of ordinary Victorian women.
[1] This body of writing is also known as "sentimental fiction" or "woman's fiction".
The genre is mainly reflected in the novel though short-stories and non-fiction works such as Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Our Country Neighbors" and The New Housekeeper's Manual written by Stowe and her sister Catharine Beecher are works of domestic realism.
The style's particular characteristics are: An example of this style of novel is Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres, in which the main character's confinement is emphasized in such a way.
Some early exponents of the genre of domestic realism were Jane Austen and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.