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Books on: american victorian women

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The American Victorian Woman: The Myth and the Reality

Book by Mabel Collins Donnelly; Greenwood Press, 1986

Subjects:

Middle Class Women--United States--History--19th Century, Women--United States--Economic Conditions, Women--United States--Social Conditions, Working Class Women--United States--History--19th Century

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...sources for the lives of American Victorian women is impressive...city women and farm women and letters of many...writing by both men and women that also explores relationships...mavericks and conventional women from different backgrounds...title was "The Glory of Woman"--but it was often...
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Consuming Angels: Advertising and Victorian Women

Book by Lori Anne Loeb; Oxford University Press, 1994

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Advertising--Social Aspects--Great Britain--History--19th Century, Great Britain--Social Conditions--19th Century, Social Values--Great Britain--History--19th Century, Women Consumers--Great Britain--History--19th Century

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...Angels in the House: The Victorian Myth and the Paget Women." American Historical Review...Alison. "Active Women in Advertisements...Leisured and Charitable Women in Nineteenth Century...Becoming Visible: Women in European History...Making of the Victorian Woman." Signs . v. 2...
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Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain

Book by K. D. Reynolds; Clarendon Press, 1998

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Aristocracy (Social Class)--Great Britain--Political Activity--History--19th Century, Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901, Great Britain--Politics And Government--1837-1901, Great Britain--Social Conditions--19th Century, Power (Social Sciences)--Great Britain--History--19th Century, Women In Politics--Great Britain--History--19th Century

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Liberal Government in Victorian Britain New Haven...1990 . PERKIN JOAN, Women and Marriage in Nineteenth...Work in the Lives of Victorian Gentlewomen Bloomington...in the House: The Victorian Myth and the Paget Women", American Historical Review...
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Silent Voices: Forgotten Novels by Victorian Women Writers

Book by Brenda Ayres; Praeger, 2003

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English Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism, English Fiction--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Women And Literature--Great Britain--History--19th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...used by both men and women to promote womens submission...more atten- tion on American women writers resistance...century Protes- tantism, American women of the nineteenth...lack of attention to Victorian womens interest in theo...frequently as their American counterparts. However...
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Victorian Women Writers and the Classics: The Feminine of Homer

Book by Isobel Hurst; Oxford University Press, 2006

Subjects:

English Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, English Literature--Women Authors--Classical Influences, English Literature--Women Authors--Greek Influences, English Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Women And Literature--Great Britain--History--19th Century, Women Authors, English--19th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...schoolmasters.134 Lectures for women were first organized...for men). However, women found that their separate...Caroline Winterer, Victorian Antigone: Classicism...America, 1840-1900, American Quarterly, 53 (2001...Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780...

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Journal Articles on: american victorian women

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Reading Women: Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present

Journal article; Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Vol. 25, 2008

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Books--Book reviews, Reading Women: Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present. Reading Women: Literary Figures and...changing depictions of women readers in nineteenth...with images of reading women (particularly romanticized...assortment of British and American texts. In her essay...groundbreaking monograph, The Woman Reader 1837-1914...
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Unescorted in Africa: Victorian Women Ethnographers Toiling in the Fields of Sensational Science

Journal article by Julie English Early; Journal of American Culture, Vol. 18, 1995

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Africa, Ethnology, Explorers, History, Kingsley, Mary, Sheldon, May French, Travel, Women

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...Unescorted in Africa: Victorian Women Ethnographers Toiling...constructing for Americans the ubiquitous...solidify an Anglo-American point of view in...view of innate American gaucherie, Americans would struggle...globe where now a woman might walk; at...the 1890s: an American, May French Sheldon...
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Women Poets and the Sister Arts in Nineteenth-Century England

Journal article by Michele Martinez; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 41, 2003

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English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism and interpretation, Hemans, Felicia--Criticism and interpretation, Victorian period literature, 1832-1901--Criticism and interpretation, Victorian values--Analysis, Women artists--Social aspects, Women poets--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Historians of Victorian art have used...attitudes toward women artists...Irish, and Americans living in Italy...friendship with an American female sculptor...calls for other women artists to...the study of Victorian poetry may...Vision" in Women as Interpreters...Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters...
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Imperial Bibles, Domestic Bodies: Women, Sexuality, and Religion in the Victorian Market

Journal article by Cheri L. Larsen Hoeckley; Christianity and Literature, Vol. 55, 2006

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Books--Book reviews, Imperial Bibles, Domestic Bodies: Women, Sexuality, and Religion in the Victorian Market (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...Domestic Bodies: Women, Sexuality, and Religion...criticism" of the Victorian era--the theology...serialization, or Victorian reading habits. The...the shelves of the Victorian marketplace of literary...presence of Catholic Victorians, especially by mid...visual culture and American Christianity, Carpenter...
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"Not Worse Than Other Girls": The Convent-Based Rehabilitation of Fallen Women in Victorian Britain

Journal article by Susan Mumm; Journal of Social History, Vol. 29, 1996

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Convents--Services, Sexual deviation--Social aspects, United Kingdom--History, 1837-1901 (Victorian era), Women--Services

Collections: History, Entire Library

...of fallen women in Victorian Britain. by Susan Mumm The Victorians were both fascinated...with its control. Victorian Britain developed a...institutions and power. While American historians have been...women. Many fallen women were prostitutes...changed into honest women, a conversion which...female to respectable woman.(3) The penitentiary...

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Magazine Articles on: american victorian women

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Unsung Heroines: Contributions of Selected Early Twentieth-Century Women to American Piano Pedagogy

Magazine article by Debra Brubaker Burns, Anita Jackson, Connie Arrau Sturm; American Music Teacher, Vol. 52, December 2002

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Pianists--Appreciation, Pianists--History, Piano music--History, Women musicians--Appreciation, Women musicians--History

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Twentieth-Century Women to American Piano Pedagogy...Connie Arrau Sturm A woman at piano has traditionally...three centuries, women have enriched the...Heroines at the Piano: Women and Music in Nineteenth...Century Fiction," Victorian Studies, Great...Gate: Origins of American Feminism: The Women...
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Cheap Thrills: A Story of American Women in Financial Jeopardy

Magazine article by Sandra Tsing Loh; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 298, July 2006

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Books--Book reviews, Money, a Memoir: Women, Emotions, and Cash (Book)--Book reviews

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...Thrills: A Story of American Women in Financial Jeopardy...illuminated, it seems a Victorian lace curtain still hangs...Dr. Phil would be a woman ... But no, in the...the air! Yet still, women don that AmEx-hued...relatable territory--what woman, feeling blue, hasnt...
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Mystique of Betty Friedan: She Helped to Change Not Only the Thinking but the Lives of Many American Women, but Recent Books Throw into Question the Intellectual and Personal Sources of Her Work

Magazine article by Alan Wolfe; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 284, September 1999

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Feminism, Feminists, Friedan, Betty, Women--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes

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...the Lives of Many American Women, but Recent Books...functionalist sociology. Americans, for all their...suburban middle-class women of her generation...sustained effort in American history," in Horowitzs...was a large intown Victorian not far from the...book--if one woman could avoid the...
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Worshipping Walt: Lancashire's Whitman Disciples: Michael Robertson Tells How a Group of Lower-Middle-Class Men in Late-Victorian England Found the American Poet an Inspiration in Their Desire to Reconcile Spirituality, Science and Socialism

Magazine article by Michael Robertson; History Today, Vol. 54, April 2004

Subjects:

Poets--Appreciation, Whitman, Walt--Appreciation

Collections: History, Entire Library

...in Late-Victorian England Found the American Poet an Inspiration...repressive Victorian cultural...Men and women of the era...countless Victorians. With the...mainstream Victorian culture...worship, an American Whitmanite...
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Where Mother Saw Best: How a Revolution in American Domestic Architecture Put Women in Command

Magazine article by Benjamin Schwarz; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 299, June 2007

Subjects:

Domesticity--Forecasts and trends, United States--Social aspects, Women--Forecasts and trends, Women--Social aspects

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...How a Revolution in American Domestic Architecture...notable architects for women who were unattached...efforts of bourgeois women, who historically lacked...their efforts to give women greater control over...what other class of woman can afford to do so...the complex network of Victorian rooms, substituting...

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Newspaper Articles on: american victorian women

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Lifestyle: Nothing New about Strutting Your Stuff; Women Were like Peacocks Way Back in the Victorian Age. Laura Davis Discovers Little Has Changed

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), June 11, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...about Strutting Your Stuff; Women Were like Peacocks Way Back in the Victorian Age. Laura Davis Discovers...the account of the Liverpool women strutting like peacocks in...invented as early as 1914 by American Mary Jacobs. Between 1920...
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All White on the Night? Andrew Lloyd Webber's Ambitious New Musical, the Woman in White, Based on Wilkie Collins's Sprawling Victorian Ghost Story, Has a Lot Riding on It. Nick Curtis Meets the Team Behind This Make-or-Break Production

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 26, 2004

Subjects:

Collins, Wilkie

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Ambitious New Musical, the Woman in White, Based on Wilkie Collinss Sprawling Victorian Ghost Story, Has a Lot...The Year Round, Collinss Victorian Gothic tale became a blockbusting...business. Zippel is all breezy American confidence, and Jones is...
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A Perpetual Victorian Age, a 20th Century without World Wars. Could It Really Have Happened If We'd Left It to Women?

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 31, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

A Perpetual Victorian Age, a 20th Century without...Happened If Wed Left It to Women? Byline: ALLAN MASSIE...Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War. More recently...have enjoyed a perpetual Victorian Age with all its glories...
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Hard Drinking and Loose Morals.Life as a Student (in Victorian Cambridge); Horrified: American Charles Astor Bristed Sleeping It off ?: A Drawing from the Diary

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 4, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Morals.Life as a Student (in Victorian Cambridge); Horrified: American Charles Astor Bristed Sleeping...Cambridge University students. American Charles Astor Bristed tells...class men to treat lower class women as their playthings. It was...that a shop girl, work-woman, domestic servant, and all...
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ANY QUESTIONS: Godiva Image Reflects Victorian Prejudices

Newspaper article by Keith Draper; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), April 13, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Godiva Image Reflects Victorian Prejudices. by...two large arguing women. The implication...WHO was the first woman to fly the English...However the first woman to fly solo across...Channel, was an American named Harriet Quimby...the Channel by a woman was made in April...the first American women to obtain a pilots...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: american victorian women

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Children's Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...book published in the American colonies, taught the...satire and word games. Victorian family life is realistically...May Alcott s Little Women (1868), whereas Mark...tales of the Japanese-American immigrant experience...the first time to an American, Maurice Sendak , in...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...elsewhere, see American literature...1860s and 70s. A woman of great erudition...Eliot was born an American, and Conrad...features of post-Victorian sensibility...watershed in both American and English literary...urges of men and women. Sensitivity...1830 1880, the Victorians (2002...
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Quilting

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...almost always created by women, most of them anonymous...needlework in pioneer American homes, at first mainly...examples are extant, the American quilt as art and craft...The quilts of certain American groups are especially...by collectors. The Victorian period marked the popularity...
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Great Britain

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...colonies broke away in the American Revolution. Additional...agricultural laborers. (Women could not vote until...foreign investments. Victorian Foreign Policy The reign...supreme war effort; American aid (see lend-lease...British forces joined the Americans in launching attacks...
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Pound, Ezra Loomis

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...POUND, EZRA LOOMIS 1885 1972, American poet, critic, and translator...movements sought to free post-Victorian verse from its staleness and...and failings of English and American democracy, he began to develop...love poetry, and Sophocles Women of Trachis. See Ezra Pound...

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