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 late Victorian period brought a radical change in cultural attitudes toward middle-class women and work. Anxiety over the growing disproportion between wome

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