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

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Vicinus, Martha (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.
Series:Routledge revivals.
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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.