| Description |
xix, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: New trends in the study of the Victorian woman / Martha Vicinus -- Victorian wives and property: reform of the Married Women's Property Law, 1857-1882 / Lee Holcombe -- The forgotten woman of the period: Penny Weekly family magazines of the 1840s and 1850s / Sally Mitchell -- Feminism and female emigration, 1861-1886 / A. James Hammerton -- The making of an outcast group: prostitutes and working women in nineteenth-century Plymouth and Southampton / Judith Walkowitz -- Image and reality: the actress and society / Christopher Kent -- Women and degrees at Cambridge University, 1862-1897 / Rita McWilliams-Tullberg -- Victorian masculinity and the angel in the house / Carol Christ -- Sex and death in Victorian England: an examination of age-and-sex-specific death rates, 1840-1910 / Sheila Ryan Johansson -- Sexuality in Britain, 1800-1900: some suggested revisions / F. Barry Smith -- The women of England in a century of social change, 1815-1914: a select bibliography, part II / Barbara Kanner. |
| Subject |
Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.
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Feminism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901.
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| Added Author |
Vicinus, Martha.
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| ISBN |
0253365406 |
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