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Knowing Their Place?: The Intellectual Life of Women in the 19th Century
Brendan (Ed) Walsh
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Description for Knowing Their Place?: The Intellectual Life of Women in the 19th Century
Paperback. Editor(s): Walsh, Dr. Brendan. Num Pages: 272 pages, 25 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 434.
Knowing their Place is a comprehensive account of the public, private and intellectual life of Irish women in the Victorian age. In particular, this book looks at the steady progress of girls and women within the education system, their gradual involvement in intellectual life through amateur societies (such as the Royal Dublin Society); their emergence of independent, highly motivated scholarly and philanthropic individuals who operated within local spheres with often very considerable degrees of success and influence.
Product Details
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845887926
SKU
V9781845887926
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Ref
99-1
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