A. James Hammerton

Emigrant Gentlewomen (eBook, PDF)

Genteel Poverty and Female Emigration, 1830-1914

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1979. This book examines the distressed gentlewoman stereotype, primarily through a study of the experience of emigration among single middle-class women between 1830 and 1914. Based largely on a study of government and philanthropic emigration projects, it argues that the image of the downtrodden resident governess does inadequate justice to Victorian middle-class women's responses to the experience of economic and social decline and to insufficient female employment opportunities. This title will be of interest to students of history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317246121
• Artikelnr.: 45434517

Autorenporträt

A. James Hammerton

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables
Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
1. The Problem of the Distressed Gentlewoman 2. Pioneer Emigrants, 1832-1836 3. Mary Taylor in New Zealand: A Case Study 4. Emigration and Respectability, 1849-1853 5. Feminism and Female Emigration, 1861-1886 6. Emigration Propaganda and the Distressed Gentlewoman, 1880-1914
Appendix I: Comparison of British and Colonial Occupations of Middle-Class Emigrants, 1832-1836
Appendix II: 'To England's Daughters' Dora Gore Browne
Bibliography
Index