books.google.co.uk - The ideal woman of the Victorian era was a combination of sexual innocence, conspicuous consumption, and worship of the family hearth -- with marriage and procreation being a woman's only function. Suffer and Be Still is a collection of ten lively essays which document the feminine stereotypes that Victorian...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Suffer_and_be_Still.html?id=zd0OAAAAQAAJ&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareSuffer and be Still
