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Books on: british victorian women

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Victorian Working Women: An Historical and Literary Study of Women in British Industries and Professions, 1832-1850

Book by Wanda Fraiken Neff; Columbia University Press, 1929

Subjects:

English Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism, Women In Art, Women In Literature, Women--Employment--Great Britain

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

VICTORIAN WORKING WOMEN An Historical and Literary Study of Women in British Industries and Professions 1832-1850 By WANDA FRAIKEN NEFF New York COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS 1929
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Penelope Voyages: Women and Travel in the British Literary Tradition

Book by Karen R. Lawrence; Cornell University Press, 1994

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British--Travel--Historiography, English Prose Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Travel In Literature, Travelers' Writings, English--History And Criticism, Voyages And Travels--Historiography, Women And Literature--Great Britain--Historiography, Women Travelers--Great Britain--Biography--History And Criticism, Women--Travel--Historiography

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Political Economy of Women as Seen by a Literary...Catherine Barnes. Victorian Women Travel Writers in Africa...Styles of Dying in British Fiction . Cambridge...Stocking, George W., Jr. Victorian Anthropology . New York...
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British Women and the Spanish Civil War

Book by Angela Jackson; Routledge, 2002

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British--Spain--Biography, Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Personal Narratives, British, Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Women, Women--Great Britain--Biography, Women--Spain--Biography

Collections: History, Entire Library

...exclusively as the province of women, has been the subject of study...her research on the role of women in the unemployed movement between...some middle and upper class women with the campaigns for Spain...he believes, the product of Victorian ideals of the role appropriate...
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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...Christian ideals than on British women writers explorations...similarly skips over British women of the nineteenth...lack of attention to Victorian womens interest in theo...of a perception that British women of the time contributed...
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In Science's Shadow: Literary Constructions of Late Victorian Women

Book by Patricia Murphy; University of Missouri Press, 2006

Subjects:

English Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, Literature And Science--Great Britain--History--19th Century, Marginality, Social, In Literature, Prejudices In Literature, Sexism In Literature, Sexism In Science--Great Britain--History--19th Century, Women In Literature, Women In Science

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...Blake, Sophia. Medical Women: A Thesis and a History...Source, 1970. . Medical Women in Fiction. Nineteenth...in the Development of Victorian Feminism, ed. Carol...Womans Future. In British Women Poets of the 19th Cen...

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Journal Articles on: british victorian women

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British Victorian Women's Periodicals: Beauty, Civilization, and Poetry

Journal article by Lisbeth Chapin; Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 41, 2010

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Books--Book reviews, British Victorian Women's Periodicals: Beauty, Civilization, and Poetry (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

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British Victorian Womens Periodicals...Ledbetter, British Victorian Womens...on Victorian women readers; to...contributors (157). Women were editors...interior world of women" (201...scholarship in British Victorian Womens Periodicals...
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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

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...for Fame: Victorian Women Artists and...professional woman artist in Victorian...ideas about women and art, as...sister arts for British poets is a...for Fame: Victorian Women Artists and...Center for British Art, 1994...
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Women Poets

Journal article by Alison Chapman; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 49, 2011

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English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism and interpretation, Levy, Amy--Criticism and interpretation, Levy, Amy--Works, Victorian period literature, 1832-1901--Criticism and interpretation, Women poets--Criticism and interpretation, Women poets--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...will interest Victorian Poetry readers...late-Victorian women as moving into...debates about the Woman Question...Socrates view of women and the intellectual...white Christian British men. In particular...that separates Victorian womens poetry...including those by women. Criticism of...Pullen, The Woman Who Dared. This...European and British travel is uncovered...
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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...been largely ignored in British studies: to put it...nineteenth-century British phenomena of the "Family...off the shelves of the Victorian marketplace of literary...titles as The Complete British Family Bible (1781...presence of Catholic Victorians, especially by mid...
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Fated Marginalization: Women and Science in the Poetry of Constance Naden

Journal article by Patricia Murphy; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 40, 2002

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English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Naden, Constance--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Science in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women in science--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Women poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...marginalization: women and science in the...Murphy HOW CAN A VICTORIAN WOMAN FIND A VOICE WITHIN...Between Men and Women," Nineteenth Century...Minds of Men and Women," Journal of the...Luke Owen Pike, "Woman and Political Power...Gladstone, "British Poetry of the Nineteenth...Constance Naden," in Victorian Women Poets: An...

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Magazine Articles on: british victorian women

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Britannia's Victorian War Artist: Mark Bryant Looks at the Work of the Punch Artist Whose Drawings Symbolized British Anger over the Indian Mutiny and Established His Own Reputation

Magazine article by Mark Bryant; History Today, Vol. 57, May 2007

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Animators--Criticism and interpretation, Animators--Works, British imperialism--History, British imperialism--Portrayals, Cartoonists and animators--Criticism and interpretation, Cartoonists and animators--Works, Cartoonists--Criticism and interpretation, Cartoonists--Works, Indian Mutiny, 1857-1858--History, Tenniel, John--Criticism and interpretation, Tenniel, John--Works

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Britannias Victorian War Artist: Mark Bryant...Whose Drawings Symbolized British Anger over the Indian...wake-up call for the British Empire. Coming so soon...first big success was The British Lions Vengeance on the...amok, killing British women and children as well...
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Imagining the East Once Dismissed as Imperialist Fantasies about the Muslim World, British Orientalist Paintings Are Once Again Becoming Popular. Their Exotic Visions Tell Us Much about the Social and Cultural History of Victorian Britain, as Rachel Aspden Reports

Magazine article by Rachel Aspden; New Statesman, Vol. 137, June 2, 2008

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British painting--Exhibitions, Painting, British--Exhibitions, Political art--Exhibitions, Politics in art--Exhibitions

Collections: History, Entire Library

...about the Muslim World, British Orientalist Paintings...and Cultural History of Victorian Britain, as Rachel Aspden...depths of a harem. The British orientalist paintings...images of burqa-clad women and bearded Islamists...century, the heyday of British artists love affair with...
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Victorian Juries: Roland Quinault Looks at How the Victorians Saw the Old English System of Trial by Jury as a Defining Feature of British Good Government and Fair Play and as an Example to Other Nations. Admiration for the System at Home and Abroad, Though, Contrasted with the Practical Realities Faced by 19th-Century Juries

Magazine article by Roland Quinault; History Today, Vol. 59, May 2009

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British history, 1815-1914--Political aspects, Juries--History, Jury--History, Trials--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: History, Entire Library

...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED The Victorians were inordinately...In the early Victorian period it was widely...Europe. As the British Empire grew so...earlier the only women allowed to serve...recently widowed woman was pregnant with...matrons survived the Victorian legal reforms...year after most women obtained the vote...the end of the Victorian era the prestige...
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Victorians Colored Their Age with Bright Reds and Greens

Magazine article by Stephen Goode; Insight on the News, Vol. 13, March 10, 1997

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Painting, British--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Painting, Victorian--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...bleak, and certainly Victorians experienced their share...recognize many of the great Victorian writers and their fictional...extend to the great Victorian painters. Names such...least in part. "The Victorians: British Painting 1837-1901...offering hope to the young woman in the foreground who...1870s, five beautiful women sit at a small table...
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Chronicling an Empire: Paintings by Victorian Travelers

Magazine article by Jordana Pomeroy; Humanities, Vol. 27, May/Jun 2006

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Painting, Society, Travel, Victorian period, Women

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...extensively. Travel provided Victorian women who lived within closely...ones mental state. Women artists often found...surroundings allowed women to set in motion the...Jewish girl, a Moorish woman, and a fez maker...They could satisfy the Victorians cravings for images...challenging their beliefs in British imperialism. Inglefields...

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Newspaper Articles on: british victorian women

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Can British Women Ever Stop Being Slaves to the Shave?

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), January 15, 2007

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Slavery, Women

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

Can British Women Ever Stop...legend, eminent Victorian John Ruskin was...never realised that women can be as hairy...class. But one woman wants to stop being...discuss Shazias one-woman stand against the...explained how French women - the acknowledged...the preserve of a British culture heavily...
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Artistic Ideals of the Other Victorians; Black Victorians - Black People in British Art 1800-1900, Essays Edited by Jan Marsh, Lund Humphries, Pounds 35. Reviewed by Richard Edmonds

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), February 11, 2006

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Essay, Essays

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

...totally remarkable woman, the medical nurse...wounded and the dying British serving men during...that didnt satisfy the British public who were not...there were many in the British Navy -were on board...lifestyles adopted by many Victorians. The book presents...the pathetic black women and children Barnardo...in the attics of the Victorian London rookeries where...
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Prisoner 2662, You Are Guilty of Stealing a Piece of Cheese; Archive Reveals Sad Stories of Five Scottish Women Who Found the Streets of Victorian London Weren't Paved with Gold

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), January 22, 2006

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

...Found the Streets of Victorian London Werent Paved with...thieving. These five women were all sent to Wandsworth...A search of the 1881 British Isles Census Record appears...timid looking of all the women. She received a two...around the time these women stole - with the citys...serious case, needle woman Mary Heaps, whose age...
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How My Grandmother Saw More Births and Deaths Than Any Other Woman in the North; A Victorian Lady Following on from Last Month's Tale of the Darlington Vicars's Daughter, the Late Max McLean, Who Wrote about His Family in the 1980s, Tells Us of His Grandmother - Emily

Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), January 10, 2009

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

...Woman in the North; A Victorian Lady Following on from...that far off part of the British Isles. After the requisite...although a fearless woman, reluctantly agreed...word was law. For a woman who was born and brought...say they do not make women like Emily McLean today...this God-fearing woman. And in conclusion I...
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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

...Strutting Your Stuff; Women Were like Peacocks Way Back in the Victorian Age. Laura Davis...account of the Liverpool women strutting like peacocks...men away fighting, women began to take on traditionally...shoes of the decade. British designer Vivienne...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: british victorian women

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Cameron, Julia Margaret

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Born and married into the high ranks of the British civil service, Cameron became an intimate...of art. Some of her works were published as Victorian Photographs of Famous Men and Fair Women (rev. ed. 1973). See biographies by B...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...the 1860s and 70s. A woman of great erudition and...become features of post-Victorian sensibility. World...supercivilized urges of men and women. Sensitivity and psychological...dissatisfaction with British society, combined with...Among the best postwar British authors were the Welsh...Davis, 1830 1880, the Victorians (2002...
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Great Britain

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...agricultural laborers. (Women could not vote until...foreign investments. Victorian Foreign Policy The...advanced by the British navy, brought on...five Chinese ports to British trade and made Hong Kong a British colony. The aggressive...
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Sidgwick, Henry

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...until 1900. The basis of his thought was British utilitarianism. Analyzing the intuitionist...planning and founding of Newnham College for women. He was also a founder of the Society...B. Schneewind, Sidgwicks Ethics and Victorian Moral Philosophy (1977...

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