The Edwardian Woman

ISBN-13: 9780415630818 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 240 str.

Duncan Crow

Opis

Covering the period from the beginning of the 20th century to the outbreak of the First World War, this entertaining account describes the lives of women in all classes of society: the entertainments they watched, the clothes they wore, their education and the effect it had on women's magazines.

Spis treści

1. The Edge of the Volcano  2. The Yellow Rich  3. ‘Pretty Faces and Large Fortunes’  4. ‘A Goddess to Many’  5. Militants from Manchester  6. Ten Shillings a Week  7. The Countess of Gaiety  8. The Kingdom of Fashion  9. One in Every Four  10. Chief Cooks and Lady Helps  11. The Marriage Question  12. The English Miss  13. No Votes for Women...  14. ...And Chastity for Men