First published in 1979. This book examines the distressed gentlewoman stereotype, primarily through a study of the experience of emigration among single middle

This book examines the transfer and adaptation of British female gentility in various locations across the British Empire, including Africa, New Zealand and Ind

First published in 1999. Driven by the interest of the author this study looks at the lives of immigrant women in central New York who are working in the garmen

In gold-rush Australia, social identity was in flux: gold promised access to fashionable new clothes, a grand home, and the goods to furnish it, but could not b

This book opens a window into the lives of British spinsters in the mid-seventeenth to mid-nineteenth centuries, assessing the opportunities open to them and th