288 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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When it was first published in 1984, this book filled an acknowledged gap in the social history of the period and made available hitherto inaccessible sources. The work draws on newspapers and journals, memoirs, diaries, courtesy books, county surveys and records, but also on the literature of the period, its novels, poetry and plays. It examines the role assigned to women in eighteenth-century... Read more
Introduction 1. Ideas of Female Perfection 2. And the Greatest of These was Chastity 3. Female Education 4. Approaching Marriage 5. Marriage and After 6. Women’s Legal Position: Marriage Law and Custom 7. Women without Husbands 8. Crime and Punishment 9. The Female Poor 10. Women and Agriculture 11. Women in Industry and Other Occupations 12. Female Domestic Servants 13. Women Protest
Biography
Bridget Hill
