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Independent Women: Work and Community for Single Women, 1850-1920

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Independent Women: Work and Community for Single Women, 1850-1920 - Vicinus, Martha, Professor
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Martha Vicinus's subject is the middle-class English woman, the first of her sex who could afford to live on her own earnings 'outside heterosexual domesticity or church governance.' She wanted and needed to work. Meticulous, resonant, original, triumphant, Independent Women tells of the efforts and endurance of this Victorian woman; of her courage and the constraints that she rejected, accepted, and created. . . . The independent women are the 'foremothers' of any women today who seeks significant work, emotionally ...

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Independent Women: Work and Community for Single Women, 1850-1920 1992, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226855684

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Independent Women: Work and Community for Single Women, 1850-1920 1988, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226855677

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Independent Women: Work and Community for Single Women, 1850-1920 1985, Virago Press Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9780860685708

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Independent Women: Work and Community for Single Women, 1850-1920 1985, Virago Press Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9780860686101

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