This volume is the first to identify a significant body of life narratives by working-class women and to demonstrate their inherent literary significance. Placi

This book is concerned with the nineteenth-century education, family life and employment of working-class girls and women. Based on extensive local research, it

The portrayal of Scotland as a particularly patriarchal society has traditionally had the effect of marginalizing Scottish women, both teachers and students, in

This study, first published in 1980, argues that higher education for women was accepted by the end of the nineteenth-century, and higher education was becoming