What does "resignation" mean in this extract?

What does "resignation" mean in the text below?

There were many others who were alarmed by the drive to
self-fulfillment Jane exhibited; The Spectator in April 1860 deplored
the "pale, clever, and sharp-spoken young woman" who had become the
fashion; the Saturday Review pretended resignation to the
dominance of "glorified governesses in fiction," who, like the poor,
would be always with them, since literature had "grown to be a woman’s
occupation."

— A Literature of Their Own by Elaine Showalter

I looked it up in a few dictionaries, but I think none of them fits this context.

According to The Free Dictionary, "resignation" means

1. The act or an instance of resigning
2. An oral or written statement that one is resigning a position or office
3. Unresisting acceptance of something as inescapable; submission.