Each seems to have found an impressive path through the inhibiting ideology of separate spheres, the cult of "femininity" that strongly denied women any significant role in public life. Certainly, this was a period of fantastic activity, by women as diverse as socially involved nuns, empire loyalists, suffragists, trades union activists, aristocratic reformers, women novelists and thousands more. By then, she has made a substantive case for this bold assertion. "The history of England during the long 19th century is, to a large extent, the history of English women," Steinbach claims in her last sentence. The emphasis shifted dramatically to working-class history and then to feminist narratives, the rediscovery of working-class heroines, political activists and regional campaigners, as well as a passionate new interest in the lives of so-called "ordinary" women.
Later, as I grew up, social history seemed to transform itself alongside me. I can recall the thrill of learning how the teenage princess was woken to be told she was now to be queen. It looks, too, at the huge role played by women in the British Empire: how imperialism shaped English women's lives and how women also moulded the Empire.Like many a keen schoolgirl in the Sixties, my chief introduction to the Victorian period was through the figure of Victoria herself. It considers the influence of religion, education, and politics, especially the advent of organised feminism and the suffragette movement.
It charts the poverty and struggles of the working class as well as the leadership roles of middle-class and elite women. Ī rich and fresh survey of women's lives between George III and the First World War Using diaries, letters, memoirs as well as social and statistical research, this book looks at life-expectancy, sex, marriage and childbirth, and work inside and outside the home, for all classes of women. It considers the influence of religion, education, and politics, especially the advent of organised feminism and the.
A rich and fresh survey of women's lives between George III and the First World War Using diaries, letters, memoirs as well as social and statistical research, this book looks at life-expectancy, sex, marriage and childbirth, and work inside and outside the home, for all classes of women.
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