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The Match Girl and the Heiress /
"Nellie Dowell was a match-factory girl in Victorian London who spent her early years consigned to orphanages and hospitals. Muriel Lester, the daughter of a wealthy shipbuilder, longed to be free of the burden of money and possessions. Together, these unlikely soul mates sought to remake the w...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; the Match Girl and the Heiress; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Victorian Childhoods and Two Victorian Children; The Education of Nellie Dowell; The Apprenticeship of Muriel Lester; Conclusions: The Challenges of Unlearning; CHAPTER TWO Capitalism, from Below and Down Under: The Global Traffic in Matches and Match Girls; The Work of the Match Girl in Victorian Culture; How Match Factory Women Became Match Girls; Match Girls' Militant: Why the Bell's Match Factory Strike of 1893/94 Failed.
- Metropolitan Match Girls Abroad: Immoral Circulations of Matches and Match GirlsConclusions; CHAPTER THREE "Being a Christian" in Edwardian Britain; "God Is Love"; Foundational Fables, Ethical Awakening; God's Empire; From Paupers to Citizens; Conclusions; CHAPTER FOUR Body Biographies in War and Peace; Taking Nellie's Temperature; Narrating Nellie; "You don't look near so well really"; Muriel Lester's Spiritual Therapeutics; Bodies at War; Grammars of Difference, Erotics of Illness in Nellie's Letters to Muriel; "Why it is I don't know"; Conclusions: Dialects for the Heart; CHAPTER FIVE.
- Love and Christian RevolutionHenry Lester's Gift; Feminisms at War; Reconciliation and Christian Revolution; "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you"; Telling the Truth, Becoming an Heiress; Conclusions; Afterlives; Manuscript Sources; Notes; Index.