In the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, how has Elizabeth changed in the six years since Victor has seen her?

In chapter 7 of Frankenstein, Victor says the
following:

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Time had altered her since I last beheld her; it
had endowed her with loveliness surpassing the beauty of her childish years. There was
the same candour, the same vivacity, but it was allied to an expression more full of
sensibility and intellect. She welcomed me with the greatest
affection.

Although she is
distraught over the death of William, Elizabeth is the paragon of the
matriarch--concerned over children and family above herself.  As such, Shelley
characterizes many of the women in the novel as passive victims of sexism.  Nearly all
of the decisions and activity in the novel is done by
men.

The women, like Elizabeth here, seem only to write
letters, wait by the bedside, and suffer at the hands of men.  Elizabeth, overall, is a
suppliet--one whose suffering and victimization by the Monster is a result of Victor's
tragic mistakes.