The angel out of the house : philanthropy and gender in nineteenth-century England /

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"In The Angel out of the House Dorice Williams Elliott examines the ways in which novels and other texts that portrayed women performing charitable acts helped to make the inclusion of philanthropic work in the domestic sphere seem natural and obvious. And although many scholars have dismissed...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Elliott, Dorice Williams, 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, ©2002.
Series:Victorian literature and culture series.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Women in charitable work > England > History > 19th century.
Women philanthropists > England > History > 19th century.
Women in literature.
Charity in literature.
Femmes dans les œuvres de bienfaisance > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Femmes philanthropes > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Charité dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Charity in literature
Women in literature
Women in charitable work
Women philanthropists
England
History
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