The Best Circles; Women and Society in Victorian England
Title | The Best Circles; Women and Society in Victorian England PDF eBook |
Author | Leonore Davidoff |
Publisher | |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
Joshua Cobb's mother told him boarding school would be the making of him, but after the first few weeks Josh felt it might well be his undoing.
The Best Circles
Title | The Best Circles PDF eBook |
Author | Leonore Davidoff |
Publisher | Hutchinson |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Public Lives
Title | Public Lives PDF eBook |
Author | Eleanor Gordon |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780300102208 |
Study of the lives of Victorian women and their families. This publication offers insights into middle-class life in Britain from 1840 through the early years of the 20th century. Examined are women's relationships, their marriages, the ways they earned and spent their money, and their social, spiritual, and civic lives. The authors explore personal diaries (both men's and women's), correspondence, inventories, wills, census reports, and other documents from Glasgow, the second most important British city of the period.
Women and Literature in Britain 1800-1900
Title | Women and Literature in Britain 1800-1900 PDF eBook |
Author | Joanne Shattock |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2001-08-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521659574 |
These new essays by leading scholars explore nineteenth-century women's writing across a spectrum of genres. The book's focus is on women's role in and access to literary culture in the broadest sense, as consumers and interpreters as well as practitioners of that culture. Individual chapters consider women as journalists, editors, translators, scholars, actresses, playwrights, autobiographers, biographers, writers for children and religious writers as well as novelists and poets. A unique chronology offers a woman-centered perspective on literary and historical events and there is a guide to further reading.
Sacred to Female Patriotism
Title | Sacred to Female Patriotism PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Lewis S |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2003-06-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1136761616 |
Missing from much of the scholarship on 18th century British politics is recognition of the extensive participation of aristocratic women. Fortunately, as a literate and self-conscious group, these women created and preserved vast manuscript collections now available to historians. In Sacred to Female Patriotism, Judith S. Lewis taps into these sou
Victorian Women
Title | Victorian Women PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Perkin |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780814766255 |
A reprint of a book first published in 1993 by John Murray, UK. Perkins (women's history, Northwestern U.) uses letters, memoirs, and other revealing, first-hand sources to describe the social conditions of women of all classes during the Victorian era. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Leisure and Class in Victorian England
Title | Leisure and Class in Victorian England PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Bailey |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2014-01-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317973607 |
First published in 2006. Part of the Studies in Social History series, this volume looks at leisure and class in Victorian England, 1830-85, including topics of popular recreation, middle class and working class differences and rational recreation for the masses and the case of Victorian Music Halls in the entertainment industry.