Victorian London's Middle Class Housewife: What She Did All Day
Describes in detail the life and activities of the middle-class married woman of London between 1875 and 1900 and reveals how housewives unwittingly became engines for change as the new century neared.
Describes in detail the life and activities of the middle-class married woman of London between 1875 and 1900 and reveals how housewives unwittingly became engines for change as the new century neared.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780313313998 (0313313997)
Publish date: November 30th 2000
Publisher: Praeger
Pages no: 227
Edition language: English
Does just what it says on the tin. Good material overview. Interesting how some desperately obvious things (Handling of money by women, for example) remain kind of mysterious because they must have been so obviously and unintrusively part of the every-day that no one actually bothered to ever write ...