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 ...
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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. The authors argue that widely accepted characterizations of the Victorian family as a private enclave in which women's roles related only to service and dependency are narrow and inaccurate. In fact, as arbiters of taste, managers of display, and consumers of culture, women assumed a variety of complex roles and were central to the creation of middle-class identity and culture.
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First edition (hardback). 8vo (24cm by 16cm), x, 294pp. 31 b&w plates. Original black cloth, dustwrapper. There is some pencil underlining to the first 8 pages; otherwise, the book is in very good condition. The dustwrapper is in near-VG condition (some chafing of the top edge). The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it. ISBN 0300102208.
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Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 0300102208. Text clean and tight; light wear and sunning to dust jacket with creases in front flap; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 328 pages.
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Very Good. 2004. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Octavo. x & 294 pp. Mild shelf wear to dust jacket, with trace of pricing sticker to upper front dj. Altogether a copy in Vedry Good condition. Very Good. (Subject: England).