A Widening Sphere - Changing Roles Of Victorian Women

Paperback, VG. xx+326pp, 8 b/w illustrations, index, very slightly worn along the edges, a near fine copy. A collection of ten essays - Introduction: New Trends In The Study Of The Victorian Woman by Martha Vicinus - Victorian Wives And Property: Reform Of The Married Women's Property Law, 1857-1882 by Lee Holcombe - The Forgotten Woman Of The Period: Penny Weekly Family Magazines Of The 1840's And 1850's by Sally Mitchell - Feminism And Female Emigration, 1861-1886 by A. James Hammerton - The Making Of An Outcast Group: Prostitutes And Working Women In Nineteenth-Century Plymouth And Southampton by Judith Walkowitz - Image And Reality: The Actress And Society by Christopher Kent - Women And Degrees At Cambridge University, 1862-1897 by Rita Mcwilliams-Tullberg - Victorian Masculinity And The Angel In The House by Carol Christ - Sex And Death In Victorian England: An Examination Of Age- And Sex-Specific Death Rates, 1840-1910 by Sheila Ryan Johansson - Sexuality In Britain, 1800-1900: Some Suggested Revisions by F. Barry Smith - The Women Of England In A Century Of Social Change, 1815-194: A Select Bibliography, Part II by Barbara Kanner. 575 grams. …