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Genteel women

Author : Dianne Lawrence
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526118246
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Genteel women written by Dianne Lawrence and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the latter half of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth, colonial expansion prompted increasing numbers of genteel women to establish their family homes in far-flung corners of the world. This work explores ways in which the women’s values, as expressed through their personal and household possessions, specifically their dress, living rooms, gardens and food, were instrumental in constructing various forms of genteel society in alien settings. Lawrence examines the transfer and adaptation of British female gentility in various locations across the British Empire, including Africa, New Zealand and India. In so doing, she offers a revised reading of the behaviour, motivations and practices of female elites, thereby calling into doubt the oft-stated notion that such women were a constraining element in new societies.

The Genteel Female

Author : Clifton Joseph Furness
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Genteel Female written by Clifton Joseph Furness and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Genteel Female

Author : Annie Nathan Meyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9784902708455
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Genteel Female written by Annie Nathan Meyer and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Genteel Women

Author : Dianne Lawrence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781526118257
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Genteel Women written by Dianne Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the transfer and adaptation of British female gentility in various locations across the British Empire, including Africa, New Zealand and India, as expressed through their personal and household possessions, specifically their dress, living rooms, gardens and food.

Emigrant Gentlewomen

Author : A. James Hammerton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317246128
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Emigrant Gentlewomen written by A. James Hammerton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1979. This book examines the distressed gentlewoman stereotype, primarily through a study of the experience of emigration among single middle-class women between 1830 and 1914. Based largely on a study of government and philanthropic emigration projects, it argues that the image of the downtrodden resident governess does inadequate justice to Victorian middle-class women’s responses to the experience of economic and social decline and to insufficient female employment opportunities. This title will be of interest to students of history.

O Genteel Lady!

Author : Esther Forbes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book O Genteel Lady! written by Esther Forbes and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stories of Independent Women from 17th–20th Century

Author : Charlotte Furness
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526704404
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Book Synopsis Stories of Independent Women from 17th–20th Century by : Charlotte Furness

Download or read book Stories of Independent Women from 17th–20th Century written by Charlotte Furness and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the lives of four elite women from British history who cast off society’s expectations to live life on their own terms. As the fight for women’s rights continues, and whilst men and women alike push for gender equality around the globe, this book aims to introduce readers to four women who, in their own way, challenged and defied the societal expectations of the time in which they lived. Some chose to be writers, some were successful businesswomen, some chose to nurture and protect, some traveled the globe, some were philanthropists. Each one made the conscious decision not to marry a man. Elizabeth Isham of Lamport Hall, Anne Robinson of Saltram, Anne Lister of Shibden Hall and Rosalie Chichester of Arlington Court. These are elite women, all connected to country houses or from noble families throughout the UK, and this book explores to what extent privilege gave them the opportunity to choose the life they wanted, thus guiding the reader to challenge their own beliefs about elite women throughout history. This book is unique in that it brings the stories of real historical women to light—some of which have never been written about before, whilst also offering an introduction to the history of marriage and societal expectations of women. Starting in 1609 and traveling chronologically up to 1949, with a chapter for each woman, this book tells their remarkable stories, revealing how strong, resilient and powerful women have always been. Praise for Stories of Independent Women from seventeenth–twentieth Century “Charlotte presents the personal histories of four women from the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries in some detail and in the context of examining their effects on the matter of gender equality. Fascinating.” —Books Monthly (UK) “Very informative, clear and quite enlightening. . . . Well done to the author Charlotte Furness.” —UK Historian

The Accomplished Lady

Author : Noël Riley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780957599291
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The Accomplished Lady written by Noël Riley and published by . This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Genteel Female. An Anthology, Etc. [With Plates.].

Author : Clifton Joseph FURNESS
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (561 download)

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Download or read book The Genteel Female. An Anthology, Etc. [With Plates.]. written by Clifton Joseph FURNESS and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Growing Up White, Genteel, and Female in a Changing South, 1865-1915

Author : Florence Elliott Cook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Growing Up White, Genteel, and Female in a Changing South, 1865-1915 written by Florence Elliott Cook and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jane Austen Among Women

Author : Deborah Kaplan
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801849701
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Jane Austen Among Women written by Deborah Kaplan and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1994-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1992. In an age when genteel women wrote little more than personal letters, how did Jane Austen manage to become a novelist? Was she an isolated genius who rose to fame through sheer talent? Did she draw strength from the support of her family or from women writers who went before her? In Jane Austen among Women, Deborah Kaplan argues that these explanations are either misleading or insufficient. Austen, Kaplan contends, participated actively in a women's culture that promoted female authority and achievement—a culture that not only helped her become a novelist but also influenced her fiction.

The Genteel Female

Author : Clifton Joseph Furness
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Stories of Independent Women from 17th-20th Century

Author : Charlotte Furness
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781526704399
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Stories of Independent Women from 17th-20th Century written by Charlotte Furness and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life in America [4 volumes]

Author : Randall M. Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313065365
Total Pages : 2658 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life in America [4 volumes] written by Randall M. Miller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 2658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The course of daily life in the United States has been a product of tradition, environment, and circumstance. How did the Civil War alter the lives of women, both white and black, left alone on southern farms? How did the Great Depression change the lives of working class families in eastern cities? How did the discovery of gold in California transform the lives of native American, Hispanic, and white communities in western territories? Organized by time period as spelled out in the National Standards for U.S. History, these four volumes effectively analyze the diverse whole of American experience, examining the domestic, economic, intellectual, material, political, recreational, and religious life of the American people between 1763 and 2005. Working under the editorial direction of general editor Randall M. Miller, professor of history at St. Joseph's University, a group of expert volume editors carefully integrate material drawn from volumes in Greenwood's highly successful Daily Life Through History series with new material researched and written by themselves and other scholars. The four volumes cover the following periods: The War of Independence and Antebellum Expansion and Reform, 1763-1861, The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Industrialization of America, 1861-1900, The Emergence of Modern America, World War I, and the Great Depression, 1900-1940 and Wartime, Postwar, and Contemporary America, 1940-Present. Each volume includes a selection of primary documents, a timeline of important events during the period, images illustrating the text, and extensive bibliography of further information resources—both print and electronic—and a detailed subject index.

The Downstairs Girl

Author : Stacey Lee
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524740977
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book The Downstairs Girl written by Stacey Lee and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Reese's Book Club YA Pick and New York Times Bestseller From the critically acclaimed author of Luck of the Titanic, Under a Painted Sky, and Outrun the Moon comes a powerful novel about identity, betrayal, and the meaning of family. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for the genteel Southern lady, "Dear Miss Sweetie." When her column becomes wildly popular, she uses the power of the pen to address some of society's ills, but she's not prepared for the backlash that follows when her column challenges fixed ideas about race and gender. While her opponents clamor to uncover the secret identity of Miss Sweetie, a mysterious letter sets Jo off on a search for her own past and the parents who abandoned her as a baby. But when her efforts put her in the crosshairs of Atlanta's most notorious criminal, Jo must decide whether she, a girl used to living in the shadows, is ready to step into the light. With prose that is witty, insightful, and at times heartbreaking, Stacey Lee masterfully crafts an extraordinary social drama set in the New South. "This vividly rendered historic novel will keep readers riveted as witty, observant Jo deals with the dangers of questioning power." --The Washington Post "Holds a mirror to our present issues while giving us a detailed and vibrant picture of life in the past." --The New York Times "A joyful read . . . The Downstairs Girl, for all its serious and timely content, is a jolly good time." --NPR

A Letter of Genteel and Moral Advice to a Young Lady

Author : Wetenhall Wilkes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)

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From Spinster to Career Woman

Author : Arlene Young
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773558497
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book From Spinster to Career Woman written by Arlene Young and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Victorian period brought a radical change in cultural attitudes toward middle-class women and work. Anxiety over the growing disproportion between women and men in the population, combined with an awakening desire among young women for personal and financial freedom, led progressive thinkers to advocate for increased employment opportunities. The major stumbling block was the persistent conviction that middle-class women - "ladies" - could not work without relinquishing their social status. Through media reports, public lectures, and fictional portrayals of working women, From Spinster to Career Woman traces advocates' efforts to alter cultural perceptions of women, work, class, and the ideals of womanhood. Focusing on the archetypal figures of the hospital nurse and the typewriter, Arlene Young analyzes the strategies used to transform a job perceived as menial into a respected profession and to represent office work as progressive employment for educated women. This book goes beyond a standard examination of historical, social, and political realities, delving into the intense human elements of a cultural shift and the hopes and fears of young women seeking independence. Providing new insights into the Victorian period, From Spinster to Career Woman captures the voices of ordinary women caught up in the frustrations and excitements of a new era.