A Victorian Woman's Place - Public Culture in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)

While the image of bourgeois Victorian women as 'angels in the house' isolated from the world in private domesticity has long been dismissed as an unrealistic ideal, women have remained marginalised in many recent accounts of the public culture of the middle class. Simon Morgan aims to redress the balance, by drawing on a variety of sources including private documents he argues that women actually played an important role in the formation of the public identity of the Victorian middle class. Through their support for cultural and philanthropic associations and their engagement in political campaigns, women developed a nascent civic identity, which for some informed their later demands for political rights. Middle Class Women and Victorian Public Culture offers numerous insights for the reader into the public lives of women in this fascinating period.

General

Imprint:	I.B. Tauris
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2007
First published:	February 2007
Authors:	Simon Morgan
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-1-84511-210-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Promotions
LSN:	1-84511-210-5
Barcode:	9781845112103

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