Victorian Working Women
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Author |
: Wanda F. Neff |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 298 |
Release |
: 2013-11-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136618048 |
ISBN-13 |
: 113661804X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Victorian Working Women by : Wanda F. Neff
This book was first published in 1929. The working woman was not, a Victorian institution. The word spinster disproves any upstart origin for the sisterhood of toil. Nor was she as a literary figure the discovery of Victorian witers in search of fresh material. Chaucer included unmemorable working women and Charlotte Bronte in 'Shirley' had Caroline Helstone a reflection that spinning 'kept her servants up very late'. It seems that the Victorians see the women worker as an object of oity, portrated in early nineteenth century as a victim of long hours, injustice and unfavourable conditions. This volume looks at the working woman in British industries and professions from 1832 to1850.
Author |
: Florence s. Boos |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 2017-12-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319642154 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319642154 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women by : Florence s. Boos
This volume is the first to identify a significant body of life narratives by working-class women and to demonstrate their inherent literary significance. Placing each memoir within its generic, historical, and biographical context, this book traces the shifts in such writings over time, examines the circumstances which enabled working-class women authors to publish their life stories, and places these memoirs within a wider autobiographical tradition. Additionally, Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women enables readers to appreciate the clear-sightedness, directness, and poignancy of these works.
Author |
: Tracy C. Davis |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 361 |
Release |
: 2002-03-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134934461 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134934467 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Actresses as Working Women by : Tracy C. Davis
Using historical evidence as well as personal accounts, Tracy C. Davis examines the reality of conditions for `ordinary' actresses, their working environments, employment patterns and the reasons why acting continued to be such a popular, though insecure, profession. Firmly grounded in Marxist and feminist theory she looks at representations of women on stage, and the meanings associated with and generated by them.
Author |
: Arlene Young |
Publisher |
: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2019-05-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780773558489 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0773558489 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis From Spinster to Career Woman by : Arlene Young
The late Victorian period brought a radical change in cultural attitudes toward middle-class women and work. Anxiety over the growing disproportion between women and men in the population, combined with an awakening desire among young women for personal and financial freedom, led progressive thinkers to advocate for increased employment opportunities. The major stumbling block was the persistent conviction that middle-class women - "ladies" - could not work without relinquishing their social status. Through media reports, public lectures, and fictional portrayals of working women, From Spinster to Career Woman traces advocates' efforts to alter cultural perceptions of women, work, class, and the ideals of womanhood. Focusing on the archetypal figures of the hospital nurse and the typewriter, Arlene Young analyzes the strategies used to transform a job perceived as menial into a respected profession and to represent office work as progressive employment for educated women. This book goes beyond a standard examination of historical, social, and political realities, delving into the intense human elements of a cultural shift and the hopes and fears of young women seeking independence. Providing new insights into the Victorian period, From Spinster to Career Woman captures the voices of ordinary women caught up in the frustrations and excitements of a new era.
Author |
: Florence S. Boos |
Publisher |
: Broadview Press |
Total Pages |
: 365 |
Release |
: 2008-06-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781770482753 |
ISBN-13 |
: 177048275X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Working-Class Women Poets in Victorian Britain by : Florence S. Boos
Though working-class women in the nineteenth century included many accomplished and prolific poets, their work has often been neglected by critics and readers in favour of comparable work by men. Questioning the assumption that few poems by working-class women had survived, Florence Boos set out to discover supposedly lost works in libraries, private collections, and archives. Her years of research resulted in this anthology. Working-Class Women Poets in Victorian Britain features poetry from a variety of women, including an itinerant weaver, a rural midwife, a factory worker protesting industrialization, and a blind Scottish poet who wrote in both the Scots dialect and English. In addition to biographical information and contemporary reviews of the poets’ work, the anthology also includes several photographs of the poets, their environment, and the journals in which their poems appeared.
Author |
: Judith R. Walkowitz |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 364 |
Release |
: 1982-10-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521270642 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521270649 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Prostitution and Victorian Society by : Judith R. Walkowitz
A study of alliances between prostitutes and femminists and their clashes with medical authorities and police.
Author |
: Francoise Barret-Ducrocq |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 1992-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780140173260 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0140173269 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Love in the Time of Victoria by : Francoise Barret-Ducrocq
Using firsthand documents uncovered in the archives of a London foundling hospital, Barret-Ducrocq offers a marvelously acute census of Victorian sexual and moral attitudes.
Author |
: Shani D'Cruze |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 263 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0875802427 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780875802428 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Crimes of Outrage by : Shani D'Cruze
This book explores sexual violence against Victorian working women. The author examines how gendered notions inform both women's negotiation of relationships and men's aggression toward women.
Author |
: Lynn Mae Alexander |
Publisher |
: Ohio University Press |
Total Pages |
: 266 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780821414934 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0821414933 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women, Work, and Representation by : Lynn Mae Alexander
In Victorian England, virtually all women were taught to sew, but this essentially domestic virtue took on a different aspect for the professional seamstress of the day. This study considers the way this powerful image of working-class suffering was used by social reformers in art and literature.
Author |
: Michael Sims |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2011-01-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101486177 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101486171 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime by : Michael Sims
A wonderfully wicked new anthology from the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime It is the Victorian era and society is both entranced by and fearful of that suspicious character known as the New Woman. She rides those new- fangled bicycles and doesn't like to be told what to do. And, in crime fiction, such female detectives as Loveday Brooke, Dorcas Dene, and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard are out there shadowing suspects, crawling through secret passages, fingerprinting corpses, and sometimes committing a lesser crime in order to solve a murder. In The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime, Michael Sims has brought together all of the era's great crime-fighting females- plus a few choice crooks, including Four Square Jane and the Sorceress of the Strand.