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6 giorni fa · The female students – numbering 20 to 30 at a time – lived at school and wore nurses’ uniforms to rigorous classes on anatomy, surgical nursing, physiology, chemistry, sanitation and ethics.
15 mag 2024 · The Political Worlds of Women: Gender and Politics in 19th-Century Britain. Abingdon, Routledge, 2013, ISBN: 9780415825665; 252pp.; Price: £80.00. In recent years, historians have begun to explore the political experiences of Victorian women outside the well-trodden suffrage narrative. As a consequence, we have a far greater understanding of ...
8 mag 2024 · Victorian Women: A Documentary Account of Women's Lives in Nineteenth-century England, France, and the United States by Erna O. Hellerstein et al. Call Number: HQ1154 .V5. ISBN: 0804710961. A Woman's Place: An Oral History of Working-Class Women 1890-1940 by Elizabeth Roberts.
4 giorni fa · By 1891, only just over a third of households could be classified as such (p. 36). Indeed, they assert that, by that date, forty per cent of all households were headed by women (p. 169). Moreover, they discover that throughout the period, between 30 and 38 per cent of single men over the age of 30 lived in a female-headed household ...
3 giorni fa · Price: £45.00. ‘It is time to effect a revolution in female manners’ declared the Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792 ‘– time to restore to them their lost dignity – and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world’.
24 apr 2024 · The study of Victorian fashion offers a deeper understanding of how societal values, cultural dynamics, economic forces, and gender constructs intertwine to shape the clothing choices of a bygone era, leaving a rich and resonant tapestry of historical and cultural significance.
10 mag 2024 · Susan E. Cook, author of “Hidden Mothers: Forms of Absence in Victorian Photography and Fiction,” explains on her website why the images might fascinate us almost 200 years later. They “draw attention to the shrouded figure they are attempting to obscure,” she writes, “and beg the question of why this figure is shrouded to begin with.
