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The Gentleman´s Daughter: Women´s Lives in Georgian England
Amanda Vickery
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Description for The Gentleman´s Daughter: Women´s Lives in Georgian England
Paperback. Based on a close examination of letters, diaries and account books, this study offers an insight into the intimate and everyday lives of genteel women and transforms our understanding of the position of women in this period. Series: Yale Nota Bene. Num Pages: 448 pages, 66 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 194 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 364.
What was the life of an eighteenth-century British genteel woman like? In this lively and controversial book, Amanda Vickery invokes women’s own accounts of their intimate and their public lives to argue that in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the scope of female experience did not diminish—in fact, quite the reverse. Refuting the common understanding that in Georgian times the daughters of merchants, the wives of lawyers, and the sisters of gentlemen lost female freedoms and retreated into their homes, Vickery shows that these women experienced expanding social and intellectual horizons. As they embraced a world far beyond the ... Read more
What was the life of an eighteenth-century British genteel woman like? In this lively and controversial book, Amanda Vickery invokes women’s own accounts of their intimate and their public lives to argue that in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the scope of female experience did not diminish—in fact, quite the reverse. Refuting the common understanding that in Georgian times the daughters of merchants, the wives of lawyers, and the sisters of gentlemen lost female freedoms and retreated into their homes, Vickery shows that these women experienced expanding social and intellectual horizons. As they embraced a world far beyond the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Series
Yale Nota Bene
Condition
New
Weight
365g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300102222
SKU
V9780300102222
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About Amanda Vickery
Amanda Vickery is lecturer in modern British women’s history at Royal Hollowly College, University of London.
Reviews for The Gentleman´s Daughter: Women´s Lives in Georgian England
"The most important thing in English feminist history in the last ten years." Roy Porter; "The Gentleman's Daughter is the most important work of social history since Lawrence Stone's Family, Sex and Marriage. From now on, any historian writing about 18th-century women will have to address the arguments in Vickery's book... It is the first book to bring out into ... Read more