A widening sphere : changing roles of Victorian women / edited by Martha Vicinus.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors:	Vicinus, Martha (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.
Series:	Routledge revivals.
Subjects:	Women > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Women > Great Britain > Social conditions. Feminism > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Feminism. Social conditions. Women. Women > Social conditions. Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century. Great Britain > History > Victoria, 1837-1901. Great Britain. History.

Table of Contents:

1. Victorian wives and property : reform of the married women's property law, 1857-1882 / Lee Holcombe
2. The forgotten woman of the period : Penny Weekly family magazines of the 1840s and 1850s / Sally Mitchell
3. Feminism and female emigration, 1861-1886 / A. James Hammerton
4. The making of an outcast group : prostitutes and working women in nineteenth-century Plymouth and Southampton / Judith Walkowitz
5. Image and reality : the actress and society / Christopher Kent
6. Women and degrees at Cambridge University, 1862-1897 / Rita McWilliams-Tullberg
7. Victorian masculinity and the angel in the house / Carol Christ
8. Sex and death in Victorian England : an examination of age- and sex-specific death rates, 1840-1910 / Sheila Ryan Johansson
9. Sexuality in Britain, 1800-1900 : some suggested revisions / F. Barry Smith
10. The women of England in a century of social change, 1815-1914 : a select bibliography, part II / Barbara Kanner.

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