Add to ORKGThe paper discusses the content of letters from emigrant governesses to Maria Rye's Female Middle Class Emigration Society, noting that they hide evidence of feeling and show the status uncertainty of governesses
This paper argues that a letter’s physicality is as important to the twenty-first century social his...
In its 1851 census, England recorded for the first time the marital status of its citizens. The resu...
The aims of this thesis are two-fold; to uncover the history of the middle-class single women in the...
The plight of the impecunious unmarried gentlewoman is a familiar theme in Victorian social history....
About one in four of all Victorian women never married. For reasons discussed in the thesis, many o...
For most middle class women who migrated, Australia was a \u27promised land\u27 as far as employment...
The Female Middle Class Emigration Society (FMCES) was formed in London at the instigation of Maria ...
Despite much recent revisionist analysis of the traditional stereotypes of Victorian women, the down...
During the nineteenth century an unprecedented number of emigrants left Britain, primarily for Ameri...
This project examines how so-called redundant women used religion and philanthropy as a means for so...
“Family historian Michael Anderson has argued that the great majority of middle-class widows were pr...
Working-class female migration in the latter half of the nineteenth century was organised by Austral...
While scholars have critiqued early representations of the white colonial female in the form of the ...
While scholars have critiqued early representations of the white colonial female in the form of the ...
Winifred Holtby, the British interwar feminist, was one of the most talented and insightful writers ...
This paper argues that a letter’s physicality is as important to the twenty-first century social his...
In its 1851 census, England recorded for the first time the marital status of its citizens. The resu...
The aims of this thesis are two-fold; to uncover the history of the middle-class single women in the...
The plight of the impecunious unmarried gentlewoman is a familiar theme in Victorian social history....
About one in four of all Victorian women never married. For reasons discussed in the thesis, many o...
For most middle class women who migrated, Australia was a \u27promised land\u27 as far as employment...
The Female Middle Class Emigration Society (FMCES) was formed in London at the instigation of Maria ...
Despite much recent revisionist analysis of the traditional stereotypes of Victorian women, the down...
During the nineteenth century an unprecedented number of emigrants left Britain, primarily for Ameri...
This project examines how so-called redundant women used religion and philanthropy as a means for so...
“Family historian Michael Anderson has argued that the great majority of middle-class widows were pr...
Working-class female migration in the latter half of the nineteenth century was organised by Austral...
While scholars have critiqued early representations of the white colonial female in the form of the ...
While scholars have critiqued early representations of the white colonial female in the form of the ...
Winifred Holtby, the British interwar feminist, was one of the most talented and insightful writers ...
This paper argues that a letter’s physicality is as important to the twenty-first century social his...
In its 1851 census, England recorded for the first time the marital status of its citizens. The resu...
The aims of this thesis are two-fold; to uncover the history of the middle-class single women in the...