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Available
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Publication
Stanford Univ Pr (1981), 544 pages
Description
A vivid sense of what it meant to be a woman during the nineteenth century emerges from this collection of more than 200 documents.
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LibraryThing member threadnsong
Extraordinary. Difficult to read, especially in light of how much women have achieved since then, and given the language that is used in regard to them. Or that they are allowed to use in describing their lives.
The brutality and harshness of the lives of working women are especially poignant, and
The book documents women of the entire era of the Victorian era from France, England, and the US. This was also the first time that I had read any accounts of a slave-woman's life in her own words.
A good read for a feminist, a historian, or just an interested reader.
The brutality and harshness of the lives of working women are especially poignant, and
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the sadness that a little girl expresses when her brothers steal and abuse her cherished doll is also hard to read.The book documents women of the entire era of the Victorian era from France, England, and the US. This was also the first time that I had read any accounts of a slave-woman's life in her own words.
A good read for a feminist, a historian, or just an interested reader.
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Original language
English
Physical description
544 p.; 9.25 inches
ISBN
0804710961 / 9780804710961