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Public lives : women, family, and society in Victorian Britain / by Eleanor Gordon and Gwyneth Nair.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2003.Description: 294 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0300102208 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.5/5/094144 21
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Contents:
1. Life in the City -- 2. It's a Family Affair -- 3. What's Love Got to Do with it? -- 4. Let me Entertain you -- 5. A Woman's Touch -- 6. I Will Survive -- 7. Downtown.
Review: "This lively book challenges many stereotypes about Victorian women and their families and offers intriguing new insights into middle-class life in Britain from 1840 through the early years of the twentieth century. Eleanor Gordon and Gwyneth Nair examine women's relationships, their marriages, the ways they earned and spent their money, and their social, spiritual, and civic lives. What emerges from this fascinating research is a revised - and far richer - view of middle class women's experiences in the Victorian era than has been understood before."--BOOK JACKET.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library 305.5509 GOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library 64857

Formerly CIP. Uk

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Life in the City -- 2. It's a Family Affair -- 3. What's Love Got to Do with it? -- 4. Let me Entertain you -- 5. A Woman's Touch -- 6. I Will Survive -- 7. Downtown.

"This lively book challenges many stereotypes about Victorian women and their families and offers intriguing new insights into middle-class life in Britain from 1840 through the early years of the twentieth century. Eleanor Gordon and Gwyneth Nair examine women's relationships, their marriages, the ways they earned and spent their money, and their social, spiritual, and civic lives. What emerges from this fascinating research is a revised - and far richer - view of middle class women's experiences in the Victorian era than has been understood before."--BOOK JACKET.

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