Women's Travel Writings in Iberia Vol 5
Women's Travel Writings in Iberia Vol 5

Author: Stephen Bending

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-28

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1040246273

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Lisbon and the Pyrenees form the basis of this lively collection of firsthand accounts of travel within Portugal and Spain in the early nineteenth century.

Women of Faith in Victorian Culture
Women of Faith in Victorian Culture

Author: Andrew Bradstock

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-02-09

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 134926749X

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An interdisciplinary study of Victorian women of faith as portrayed in the fiction and non-fiction of the period. The book explores how novelists, biographers and other writers depicted religious women, with special reference to the influence of the ideal of the 'Angel in the House' as embodied in Coventry Patmore's poem of that name. Among those whose work is explored are George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Christina Rossetti, George Moore and Anne Bront as well as hymnwriters, missionary biographers, non-conformist obituarists and artists of the Aesthetic Movement.

Cruelty and Companionship
Cruelty and Companionship

Author: A. James Hammerton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1134959184

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Cruelty and Companionship is an account of the intimate but darker sides of marriage in Victorian and Edwardian England. Hammerton draws upon previously unpublished material from the records of the divorce court and magistrates' courts to challenge many popular views about changing family patterns. His findings open a rare window onto the sexual politics of everyday life and the routine tensions which conditioned marriage in middle and working class families. Using contemporary evidence ranging from prescriptive texts and public debate to autobiography and fiction, Hammerton examines the intense public scrutiny which accompanied the routine exposure of marital breakdown, and charts a growing critique of men's behaviour in marriage which increasingly demanded regulation and reform. The critical discourse which resulted, ranging from paternalist to feminist, casts new light on the origins and trajectory of nineteenth century feminism, legal change and our understanding of the changing expression of masculinity.

The Letters of Charlotte Brontë: 1848-1851
The Letters of Charlotte Brontë: 1848-1851

Author: Charlotte Brontë

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 866

ISBN-13: 9780198185987

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In this volume we share Charlotte Bronte's experience for four crucial years. The success of Jane Eyre and the strange power of Wuthering Heights made the 'brothers Bell' the 'universal theme of conversation'; but privately the family endured the deaths of Branwell Bronte in September andEmily in December 1848, followed by Anne's in May 1849. Haunted by the fear that she also would succumb, Charlotte found salvation in writing Shirley, published in October 1849, and comfort in her friendship and correspondence with Ellen Nussey, with her publishers-especially George Smith-with MrsGaskell, and (for a time) Harriet Martineau. She may also have received a proposal of marriage from Smith, Edler's manager, James Taylor.

Victorian Women's Magazines
Victorian Women's Magazines

Author: Margaret Beetham

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780719058790

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Focusing on the historical development of the British women's magazine, this book begins with descriptions of different kinds of magazines. This is followed by an exploration of elements that made up the mix of ingredients and a comprehensive listing.