Public lives

Description:

"This lively book challenges many stereotypes about Victorian women and their families and offers intriguing new insights into middle-class life in Britain from 1840 through the early years of the twentieth century. Eleanor Gordon and Gwyneth Nair examine women's relationships, their marriages, the ways they earned and spent their money, and their social, spiritual, and civic lives. What emerges from this fascinating research is a revised - and far richer - view of middle class women's experiences in the Victorian era than has been understood before."--BOOK JACKET

subjects: History,  Middle class families,  Middle class women,  Sex role,  Social conditions,  Women,  British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900,  Social history,  Women's studies,  c 1800 to c 1900,  Social Science,  Sociology,  History: World,  British Isles,  United Kingdom, Great Britain,  General,  Social Science / General,  Women's Studies - General,  19th century,  Glasgow,  Scotland,  Women, scotland,  Middle class,  Scotland, social conditions

Places: Glasgow,  Glasgow (Scotland),  Scotland

Times: 19th century