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Eighteenth-Century Women : An Anthology

By Bridget Hill

Book information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
Year
2012
ISBN
9781136247972, 9780415623889
LCC
HQ1150 .E34
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
377 kB (386510 bytes)
Series
Routledge Library Editions: Women's History Ser.
Pages
289\0
Time added
2023-08-04 20:04:39
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Description

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 period, its novels, poetry and plays. It examines the role assigned to women in eighteenth-century society and the education thought fitting to perform it. It looks at attitudes to courtship and marriage, chastity and sexual passion. It explores the role of women as wives and mothers, as spinsters and widows, and focuses on the living and working experience of women whether in the home, agriculture, industry or domestic service. It contrasts the expectations of the rich and the poor, the leisured lady and the underpaid female agricultural labourer, the unmarried mother and the prostitute.

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