Add to ORKGWorking Girls: Fiction, Sexuality, and Modernity investigates the significance of a new form of sexual identity at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. Young women of the lower-middle and working classes were increasingly abandoning domestic service in favour of occupations of contested propriety. They inspired both moral unease and erotic fascination. Working Girls considers representations of four highly glamorised yet controversial types of women worker: telegraphists and typists (in newly-feminised offices), shop assistants (in the new department stores), and barmaids (in the new ‘gin palaces’ of major British cities). Economically emancipated (more or less) and liberated (more or less) from the protection a...
The idea of Victorian womanhood typically summons images of Coventry Patmore's "angel in the house,"...
This monograph is part of Palgrave Macmillan's Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Its interv...
I have found that Victorian domestic ideology, as defined by literary scholar Catherine Hall, is oft...
This thesis offers a fresh perspective on the New Woman by examining the representation of the chara...
As working women invaded the public space of the factory in the nineteenth century, they challenged ...
As working women invaded the public space of the factory in the nineteenth century, they challenged ...
As working women invaded the public space of the factory in the nineteenth century, they challenged ...
Nineteenth-century working women challenged the ideal of the Victorian woman, in whom contemporary n...
During the late-nineteenth century, discussions surrounding female shop assistants permeated British...
Nineteenth-century working women challenged the ideal of the Victorian woman, in whom contemporary n...
Nineteenth-century working women challenged the ideal of the Victorian woman, in whom contemporary n...
Factory girl literature emerged as a powerful critique of the culture of industrialization, delving ...
Restricted until 21 July 2010.Frequently in early modern London, as Elizabeth Fowler aptly put it, ...
Unrestricted“Alewives and Factory Girls” sets out to establish a lineage of representations of worki...
This study argues that Charlotte Bronte???s canonical romance novel Jane Eyre (1847)\ud centrally sh...
The idea of Victorian womanhood typically summons images of Coventry Patmore's "angel in the house,"...
This monograph is part of Palgrave Macmillan's Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Its interv...
I have found that Victorian domestic ideology, as defined by literary scholar Catherine Hall, is oft...
This thesis offers a fresh perspective on the New Woman by examining the representation of the chara...
As working women invaded the public space of the factory in the nineteenth century, they challenged ...
As working women invaded the public space of the factory in the nineteenth century, they challenged ...
As working women invaded the public space of the factory in the nineteenth century, they challenged ...
Nineteenth-century working women challenged the ideal of the Victorian woman, in whom contemporary n...
During the late-nineteenth century, discussions surrounding female shop assistants permeated British...
Nineteenth-century working women challenged the ideal of the Victorian woman, in whom contemporary n...
Nineteenth-century working women challenged the ideal of the Victorian woman, in whom contemporary n...
Factory girl literature emerged as a powerful critique of the culture of industrialization, delving ...
Restricted until 21 July 2010.Frequently in early modern London, as Elizabeth Fowler aptly put it, ...
Unrestricted“Alewives and Factory Girls” sets out to establish a lineage of representations of worki...
This study argues that Charlotte Bronte???s canonical romance novel Jane Eyre (1847)\ud centrally sh...
The idea of Victorian womanhood typically summons images of Coventry Patmore's "angel in the house,"...
This monograph is part of Palgrave Macmillan's Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Its interv...
I have found that Victorian domestic ideology, as defined by literary scholar Catherine Hall, is oft...