Victorian women / Joan Perkin

London : J. Murray, 1993. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: vii, 264 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations, portraits, facsimiles; 25 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-253) and index. Contents: What use were girls anyway?: class and the importance of gender -- That won't earn a gal a living: education for girls -- Thinking of England: sex, courtship and marriage -- Angels in the house: marriage and domestic life -- Time of their own: women's interests and entertainments -- Punch and Judy: holy deadlock, separation and divorce -- Turning their industry to best account: widowhood and old age -- Making their own way: the lives of unmarried middle-class women -- Cheap labour: the lives of unmarried working-class women -- Olbiged to be breadwinners: the lives of married women workers -- Ladies bountiful: philanthropic, voluntary and political work -- A separate species of womanhood: the demi-monde -- Conclusion: to become themselves. Subjects: 19th century. Women Great Britain History 19th century. Women Great Britain Social conditions. Women history.Women England Social conditions. Divorce Great Britain History 19th century. Genre: Bibliography. History. Illustrated.