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Eighteenth-century women : an anthology /

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 p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hill, Bridget
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.
Colección:Routledge library editions. Women's history ; v. 21.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Ideas of female perfection
  • pt. 2. And the greatest of these was chastity
  • pt. 3. Female education
  • pt. 4. Approaching marriage
  • pt. 5. Marriage and after
  • pt. 6. Women's legal position : marriage law and custom
  • pt. 7. Women without husbands
  • pt. 8. Crime and punishment
  • pt. 9. The female poor
  • pt. 10. Women and agriculture
  • pt. 11. Women in industry and other occupations
  • pt. 12. Female domestic servants
  • pt. 13. Women protest.