In this fundamental reassessment of the experience of working women in eighteenth-century England, Bridget Hill explores how and to what extent industrialization improved the overall position of women and changed the opportunities open to them.
In this fundamental reassessment of the experience of working women in eighteenth-century England, Bridget Hill explores how and to what extent indust...
The author offers a reassessment of how women's experience of work in 18th-century England was affected by industrialization and other elements of economic, social and technological change.
The author offers a reassessment of how women's experience of work in 18th-century England was affected by industrialization and other elements of eco...
We know very little about spinsters in earlier times, for the stigma attached to the unmarried state often rendered these women almost invisible. Now a fascinating book opens a window into the lives of British spinsters in the mid-seventeenth to mid-nineteenth centuries, assessing the opportunities open to them and the restrictions placed upon them within different social classes, occupations, and periods. Bridget Hill examines how often spinsters were able to earn enough money to live independently, what provision the Poor Law made for them if they did not, whether extreme poverty led to...
We know very little about spinsters in earlier times, for the stigma attached to the unmarried state often rendered these women almost invisible. Now ...
When it was first published in 1984, this book filled an acknowledged gap in the social history of the period and made available hitherto inaccessible sources. The work draws on newspapers and journals, memoirs, diaries, courtesy books, county surveys and records, but also on the literature of the period, its novels, poetry and plays. It examines the role assigned to women in eighteenth-century society and the education thought fitting to perform it. It looks at attitudes to courtship and marriage, chastity and sexual passion. It explores the role of women as wives and mothers, as...
When it was first published in 1984, this book filled an acknowledged gap in the social history of the period and made available hitherto inaccessi...
