The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England
by Vickery, Amanda
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0300080026
- ISBN 13
- 9780300080025
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New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1999. reprint. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 436 pages, b&w illustrations. Eighteenth-century women have long been presented as the heroines of traditional biographies, or as the faceless victims of vast historical processes, but rarely have they been deemed worthy of historical inquiry. "The Gentleman's Daughter" provides an account of the lives of genteel women - the daughters of merchants, the wives of lawyers and the sisters of gentlemen. Based on a study of the letters, diaries and account books of over 100 women from commercial, professional and gentry families, mainly in provincial England, "The Gentleman's Daughter" challenges the view that the period witnessed a new division of the everyday worlds of privileged men and women into the separate spheres of home and work. Amanda Vickery invokes the women's own accounts of their lives to argue that in the course of the 18th and early 19th centuries the scope of female experience did not diminish - in fact, quite the reverse. Contrary to orthodoxy, in the 18th century there was neither a loss of female freedoms, nor a novel retreat into the home. In their own writing, genteel women throughout the Georgian era singled out their social and their emotional roles: kinswoman, wife, mother, housekeeper, consumer, hostess and member of polite society. Clean copy. Record # 382129
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- Title
- The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England
- Author
- Vickery, Amanda
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0300080026
- ISBN 13
- 9780300080025
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven CT
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- history, England, , .
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