Nobody's Angels: Middle-class Women and Domestic Ideology in Victorian Culture

Nobody's Angels: Middle-class Women and Domestic Ideology in Victorian Culture
ISBN-10
0801482208
ISBN-13
9780801482205
Category
English fiction
Pages
268
Language
English
Published
1995
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Author
Elizabeth Langland

Description

Langland argues that the middle-class wife had a more complex and important function than has previously been recognized: she mastered skills that enabled her to support a rigid class system while unknowingly setting the stage for a feminist revolution.

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