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Daily Life in Victorian England

Author : Sally Mitchell

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 354 pages

File Size : 20,30 MB

Release : 2008-11-30

Category : History

ISBN : 0313350353

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What was life really like in Victorian England during its transition from provincial society into modern urban power? Discover the effects of increased women's rights, technological advances, and Charles Darwin's discoveries on everyday life. This volume offers a fascinating glimpse into Victorian daily living, including women's roles; Victorian Morality; leisure; health and medicine; and life in all settings, from workhouses to country estates. This edition features an extensive guide to contemporary primary source material and further research, including information about finding authoritative sources easily on the Web. Illustrations, interactive sidebars, a chronology and glossary further illuminate the details of Victorian culture. This volume is an ideal source for students and teachers alike. Discover the effects of increased women's rights, technological advances, and Charles Darwin's discoveries on everyday life. Engaging narrative chapters explore all aspects of the Victorian experience, including: fashion, morality, courtship and mourning rituals, crime and punishment, public school requirements, legal status (marriage, divorce, inheritance, guardians, and bankruptcy), sports like croquet and foxhunting, and the importance of religion.



Daily Life of Victorian Women

Author : Lydia Murdoch

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 318 pages

File Size : 30,14 MB

Release : 2013-10-01

Category : History

ISBN : 0313384991

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Explores the complexities of the lived experiences of Victorian women in the home, the workplace, and the empire as well as the ideals of womanhood and femininity that developed during the 19th century. Contrary to popular misconception, many Victorian women performed manual labor for wages directly alongside men, had political voice before women's suffrage, and otherwise contributed significantly to society outside of the domestic sphere. Daily Life of Victorian Women documents the varied realities of the lives of Victorian women; provides in-depth comparative analysis of the experiences of women from all classes, especially the working class; and addresses changes in their lives and society over time. The book covers key social, intellectual, and geographical aspects of women's lives, with main chapters on gender and ideals of womanhood, the state, religion, home and family, the body, childhood and youth, paid labor and professional work, urban life, and imperialism.



Victorian Diaries

Author : Heather Creaton

Publisher : Miller/Mitchell Beazley

Page : 144 pages

File Size : 39,83 MB

Release : 2001

Category : History

ISBN : 9781840003598

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A collection of ordinary diary entries from a cross section of classes and lifestyles showing the essentials of the Victorians' daily reality: their family concerns, medical conditions and education. Included in the book are entries from an actor, a schoolboy, a Countess and an engraver.



Victorian Women

Author : Joan Perkin

Publisher : NYU Press

Page : 288 pages

File Size : 13,81 MB

Release : 1995

Category : History

ISBN : 9780814766255

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A reprint of a book first published in 1993 by John Murray, UK. Perkins (women's history, Northwestern U.) uses letters, memoirs, and other revealing, first-hand sources to describe the social conditions of women of all classes during the Victorian era. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR



The Diary of a Victorian Lady

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Publisher : Excellent Press Publishers

Page : 202 pages

File Size : 37,91 MB

Release : 1998

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN :

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Delightful Victorian Diary of 23 year-old Adelaide Pountney, who recorded daily life in a series of magical little cameos.



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Explores the complexities of the lived experiences of Victorian women in the home, the workplace, and the empire as well as the ideals of womanhood and femininity that developed during the 19th century. Contrary to popular misconception, many Victorian women performed manual labor for wages directly alongside men, had political voice before women's suffrage, and otherwise contributed significantly to society outside of the domestic sphere. Daily Life of Victorian Women documents the varied realities of the lives of Victorian women; provides in-depth comparative analysis of the experiences of women from all classes, especially the working class; and addresses changes in their lives and society over time. The book covers key social, intellectual, and geographical aspects of women's lives, with main chapters on gender and ideals of womanhood, the state, religion, home and family, the body, childhood and youth, paid labor and professional work, urban life, and imperialism.



Victorian Women

Author : Erna Olafson Hellerstein

Publisher : Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press

Page : 560 pages

File Size : 23,58 MB

Release : 1981

Category : Women

ISBN :

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A vivid sense of what it meant to be a woman during the nineteenth century emerges from this collection of more than 200 documents.



Life as a Victorian Lady

Author : Pamela Horn

Publisher : Sutton Publishing

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 48,71 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Great Britain

ISBN : 9780750946070

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What did Victorian ladies wear? How did they spend their free time? How did they cope with the strict rules of etiquette concerning the opposite sex, calling on other ladies, ordering the staff and structuring their household? Here you can read about their food, their dress, their rules, their passions and their lives.



Daily Life of Women in Chaucer's England

Author : Jennifer C. Edwards

Publisher : Greenwood

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 44,92 MB

Release : 2022-04-08

Category : History

ISBN : 1440870543

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"This book examines the lives of women in England during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, a period known as the late Middle Ages"--



How to be a Victorian

Author : Ruth Goodman

Publisher : Penguin UK

Page : 470 pages

File Size : 50,49 MB

Release : 2013-06-27

Category : History

ISBN : 0241958342

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TRAVEL BACK IN TIME WITH THE BBC'S RUTH GOODMAN We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a commoner - like you or me? How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer for breakfast and clean your teeth with cuttlefish? Catch the omnibus to work and do the laundry in your corset? How to be a Victorian is a radical new approach to history; a journey back in time more personal than anything before, illuminating the overlapping worlds of health, sex, fashion, food, school, work and play. Surviving everyday life came down to the gritty details, the small necessities and tricks of living and this book will show you how. ______________________ 'Goodman skilfully creates a portrait of daily Victorian life with accessible, compelling, and deeply sensory prose' Erin Entrada Kelly 'We're lucky to have such a knowledgeable cicerone as Ruth Goodman . . . Revelatory' Alexandra Kimball 'Goodman's research is impeccable . . . taking the reader through an average day and presenting the oddities of life without condescension' Patricia Hagen