Family, love, and work in the lives of Victorian gentlewomen
Physically frail, badly educated girls, brought up to lead useless lives as idle gentlewomen, married to dominant husbands, and relegated to "separate spheres" of life--these phrases have often been used to describe Victorian upper-middle-class women. M. Jeanne Peterson rejects such formulations and the received wisdom they embody in favor of a careful examination of Victorian ladies and their lives
Print Book, English, ©1989
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, ©1989
History
xii, 241 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
9780253344274, 9780253205094, 0253344271, 0253205093
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Backgrounds and Personalities
Ladies Learning: The Education of Victorian Gentlewomen
Sex, Friendship, and Love: Gentlewomen's Physical and Emotional Lives
Other Facts of Family Life
Gentlewomen at Work
"Two Working Together for a Common End"
Conclusion