Victorian Women - Brossura

Perkin, Joan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0814766250 ISBN 13: 9780814766255

Casa editrice: New York Univ Pr, 1995

Riassunto

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 long nineteenth century between the French Revolution and the First World War.

In letters, memoirs, and other contemporary sources these women describe their childhood and education; courtship, marriage and homemaking; sex and motherhood; marital breakdown; widowhood; and their pastimes and entertainments. Their voices, heretofore drowned by the cacophony of louder, often male versions of history, speak to us with clarity and poignancy, revealing strength of feeling, courage, and humor. We find in this book the unmarried woman worker, the single mother, the prostitute, as well as those who fought for professional recognition against the regiments of the church, government, and law.

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• Editore: New York Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0814766250
• ISBN 13: 9780814766255
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile