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Books on: victorian england women

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Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England

Book by Sharon Marcus; Princeton University Press, 2007

Subjects:

Female Friendship--England, Lesbians--England--History, Women In Literature, Women--England--History, Women--Social Networks--England

Collections: History, Entire Library

Victorian novels, 8, 73 81...lifewritings of Victorian women, lifewritings of, 16...relationships between women, 32 38, 193 94; religious...312nn15 16, 314n30 Why Are Women Redundant? (Greg...Caroline Wilde, Oscar, 261 Woman in White, The (Collins...lifewritings of Women of England, The (S. Elllis...
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Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England: Jewish Identity and Christian Culture

Book by Cynthia Scheinberg; Cambridge University Press, 2002

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Aguilar, Grace--1816-1847--Religion, Browning, Elizabeth Barrett--1806-1861--Religion, Christian Poetry, English--19th Century--History And Criticism, Christianity And Literature--England--History--19th Century, English Poetry--19th Century--History And Criticism, English Poetry--Jewish Authors--History And Criticism, English Poetry--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Jewish Poetry--History And Criticism, Jewish Women--Great Britain--Intellectual Life, Jews In Literature, Judaism And Literature--England, Levy, Amy--1861-1889--Religion, Religious Poetry, English--History And Criticism, Rossetti, Christina Georgina--1830-1894--Religion, Women And Literature--England--History--19th Century

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...possibility of those other women poets who might make...real Israelite women in Victorian England was, of course, prophetic...widely in America and England before her early death...women poets in Victorian England, Anglo-Jewish women...
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Women and Domestic Experience in Victorian Political Fiction

Book by Susan Johnston; Greenwood Press, 2001

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Domestic Fiction, English--History And Criticism, English Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism, English Fiction--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Home In Literature, Political Fiction, English--History And Criticism, Politics And Literature--Great Britain--History--19th Century, Women And Literature--Great Britain--History--19th Century, Women In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Caroline. English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century...Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory...Early English Feminist. Women in Culture and Society...Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England. Women in Culture and...
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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

...Periclean Athens and Victorian England: modest women are barely educated...consort with public women-actresses, singers...merely as a cultured woman and dutiful wife in...misrepresenta- tion of women who dare to think for...
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Nobody's Angels: Middle-Class Women and Domestic Ideology in Victorian Culture

Book by Elizabeth Langland; Cornell University Press, 1995

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English Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism, Middle Class In Literature, Middle Class Women--Great Britain--History--19th Century

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...separation of private from public spheres in Victorian England and depicted Victorian women as disinterested cultural guardians facilitated...House, the polar representations of bourgeois women as either redemptive or idle, all fed their...

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Journal Articles on: victorian england women

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Women Poets and the Sister Arts in Nineteenth-Century England

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

Subjects:

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

...predecessors, Victorian women poets capitalized...monuments of women. "The Last...eighteenth-century England. (7) In Renaissance...introducing a woman artists point...Struggle for Fame: Victorian Women Artists and Authors...professional woman artist in Victorian England. The juxtaposition...received ideas about women and art, as...
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Engendering Relief: Women, Ablebodiedness, and the New Poor Law in Early Victorian England

Journal article by Marjorie Levine-Clark; Journal of Women's History, Vol. 11, 2000

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Women--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790...Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle...Changing Roles of Victorian Women (Bloomington: Indiana...Ideology", in Fit Work for Women , ed. Sandra Burman...Nineteenth-Century Woman ; Deborah Gorham, The...District Archives, Leeds, England (hereafter LDA). 36...
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Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England: Jewish Identity and Christian Culture

Journal article by Christine L. Krueger; Christianity and Literature, Vol. 53, 2003

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Books--Book reviews, Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England: Jewish Identity and Christian Culture (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...experience as a learned Jewish woman in Victorian England, circumscribed by both Christian...and her prose (e.g., The Women of Israel 1845) chart out...contradictions of being a devout Jewish woman poet in Victorian England necessitated a deeply pragmatic...
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Magdalenes and Nuns: Convent Laundries in Late Victorian England

Journal article by Rene Kollar; Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 73, 2004

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Anglican churches, England, Evangelism, Laundries, Nuns, Social conditions & trends, Victorian period

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...escape criticism in Victorian society. "Both sisters...favour of establishing women-only communities...a convent laundry in England represented only one...rehabilitate the penitent woman. Other establishments...criminals, alcoholics, and women with mental problems...asylums in Ireland and England, however, other Anglican...
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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...nineteenth-century England shaped the way Protestant...serialization, or Victorian reading habits. The...the shelves of the Victorian marketplace of literary...presence of Catholic Victorians, especially by mid...nineteenth-century England. Elizabeth Langland...

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Magazine Articles on: victorian england women

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Women Murderers in Victorian Britain

Magazine article by Judith Knelman; History Today, Vol. 48, August 1998

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United Kingdom--History, 1837-1901 (Victorian era), Women murderers--Media coverage

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Broadsides of adamant women like Mary Ann Burdock...their inhumanity. When a women did repent publicly...1994); Mary Hartman, Victorian Murderesses: A True...Respectable French and English Women Accused of Unspeakable...Custody in Victorian England (Clarendon Press, 1991...
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Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England

Magazine article by Winifred Gallagher; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 28, Summer 2004

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Books--Book reviews, Inside the Victorian Home: a Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England (Book)--Book reviews

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...Domestic Life in Victorian England. by Winifred Gallagher...Domestic Life in Victorian England. By Judith Flanders...For a middle-class woman, who often worked...and drying linens, Victorian homemakers were burdened...Living today, most Victorians regarded the daunting...nature." The average Victorian kitchen was "a dark...population of young London women. The dirty, brutal...
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The Victorian Achievement: A Usually Sophisticated Writer Indulges in Simple-Minded Animus against Victorian England-Which Deserves Better

Magazine article by Gertrude Himmelfarb; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 291, March 2003

Subjects:

THE VICTORIANS (Book)

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...because the "Victorians en masse" were...social history of Victorian Britain. For...the exclusion of women from that voting...that the first woman member to take...proportion of men to women in Parliament...revolution in England? That question...lessons" from the Victorians, it is because...rate declined in Victorian England not only because...
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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

Collections: Entire Library

...extensively. Travel provided Victorian women who lived within...Eleanor Grosvenor in England, earnestly asking...experience to you." Many women produced prodigious...unfathomable to most women in Great Brittan. Women traveling abroad often...Jewish girl, a Moorish woman, and a fez maker...They could satisfy the Victorians cravings for images...
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Eastward Ho! and Home Again at the Museum in Docklands: Jack Lohman, Director of the Museum of London, Explains the Significance of Two Victorian Paintings and Why the Museum Is Delighted to Have Been Able to Acquire Them

Magazine article by Jack Lohman; History Today, Vol. 55, April 2005

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Art, Victorian--19th century AD, Art, Victorian--Criticism and interpretation, Museum of London (London, England)--Exhibitions, Painters (Artists)--19th century AD, Painters (Artists)--Criticism and interpretation, Painters--19th century AD, Painters--Criticism and interpretation, Painting (Art)--19th century AD, Painting (Art)--Criticism and interpretation, Painting--19th century AD, Painting--Criticism and interpretation, Victorian art--19th century AD, Victorian art--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Explains the Significance of Two Victorian Paintings and Why the Museum...important and iconic works of Victorian art to come to auction in recent...Patons painting, which depicted women and children about to be murdered...everyday experience at home in England that found most favour with...

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Newspaper Articles on: victorian england women

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Ten Years in Jail for Stealing Some Beef; Rough Justice for Women in Victorian Era

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), February 25, 2011

Subjects:

Beef, Beef industry, Women

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

...Some Beef; Rough Justice for Women in Victorian Era. Byline: Kim Carmichael...has been shone on some of the women caught up in the Victorian...crimes that saw North East women imprisoned for decades and...harsh punishments is a Tyneside woman sentenced to hard labour for...
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Lifestyle: From Men's Slaves to City Slickers; the Women of Today Are Light Years Away from Their Victorian Relatives

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

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

...Away from Their Victorian Relatives. Byline...150 years time a woman would be editing...mid-19th century women would have had little...century, Victorian women were virtual slaves to men. Affluent women were expected to...back then when a woman promised in her...secular divorce in England. 1873 - The Custody...
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Victorian Tale of Wine, Women, Song and Boxing Heroics; BOOK REVIEW

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 19, 2008

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Wine

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

Victorian Tale of Wine, Women, Song and Boxing Heroics; BOOK REVIEW...seduce an enormous collection of the Victorian eras most beautiful women. This is...for sportsmen. Unusually for the Victorian era, Mace lived until he was nearly...
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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

...Women Who Found the Streets of Victorian London Werent Paved with Gold...petty thieving. These five women were all sent to Wandsworth...most timid looking of all the women. She received a two-month...rife around the time these women stole - with the citys population...most serious case, needle woman Mary Heaps, whose age was...
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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...Rose. So Scotland and England would have been united...have enjoyed a perpetual Victorian Age with all its glories...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: victorian england women

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Costume

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...white linen. Egyptian women first wore the kalasiris...invader. Both men and women wore a double tunic...appearance. In Elizabethan England (c.1550) the costume...part of the skirt. In England after 1660 the dress...adopted. After 1840 Victorian women wore layers of...
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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 War I shook England to the core. As social...supercivilized urges of men and women. Sensitivity and psychological...chronicling life in England during the 20th cent...Davis, 1830 1880, the Victorians (2002...
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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

...Goose became popular in England. A collection of Mother...and Maria Edgeworth in England and in the United States...Andersen appeared in England in 1846. At the end...satire and word games. Victorian family life is realistically...Louisa May Alcott s Little Women (1868), whereas Mark...
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Great Britain

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Technically, Great Britain comprises England (1991 pop. 46,382,050...administrative divisions, see England , Wales , Scotland , and Ireland...to agricultural laborers. (Women could not vote until 1918...and foreign investments. Victorian Foreign Policy The reign of...
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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

...Europe, eventually settling in England. There he published a series...originality and erudition. In England he came to dominate the avant...movements sought to free post-Victorian verse from its staleness and...love poetry, and Sophocles Women of Trachis. See Ezra Pound...

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