Public lives : women, family, and society in Victorian Britain
"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."--Jacket
History
294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780300102208, 0300102208
52514332
Life in the city
It's a family affair
What's love got to do with it?
Let me entertain you
A woman's touch
I will survive
Downtown