Victorian Women

Name: Victorian Women
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ISBN: 9780814766255

ISBN-10: 0814766250

ISBN-13: 9780814766255

Edition: 1995

Authors: Joan Perkin

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"A useful and engaging book, one in which real voices are allowed to speak and to describe experience as being as squalid, muddled, painful and interesting as it generally is." Sunday Times "On individual examples Perkin is superb, not just on the great reformers but on the individual free-wheelers like Isabella Bird-Bishop, who set off at 40 to see the whole world and managed it." The Independent While the aristocratic women of the Victorian age have long preoccupied the popular imagination, seldom have women of other classes been granted a voice. Victorian Women is the first book to allow women of all classes to render their own lives, in their own words, from birth to old age, in the…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Joan Perkin teaches women's history at Northwestern University. She is the author of It's Never Too late: A Practical Guide to Continuing Education for Women of all Ages, and Women and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century England.



Illustrations


Introduction



What Use Were Girls Anyway?: Class and the Importance of Gender



That Won't Earn a Gal a Living: Education for Girls



Thinking of England: Sex, Courtship and Marriage



Angels in the House: Marriage and Domestic Life



Time of Their Own: Women's Interests and Entertainments



Punch and Judy: Holy Deadlock, Separation and Divorce



Turning Their Industry to Best Account: Widowhood and Old Age



Making Their Own Way: The Lives of Unmarried Middle-Class Women



Cheap Labour: The Lives of Unmarried Working-Class Women



Obliged to be Breadwinners: The Lives of Married Women Workers



Ladies Bountiful: Philanthropic, Voluntary and Political Work



A Separate Species of Womanhood: The Demi-Monde


Conclusion: To Become Themselves


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Index