The Gentleman's Daughter  -  Amanda Vickery

Women`s Lives in Georgian England (Yale Nota Bene S.)

KORTE INHOUD

Eighteenth-century women have long been presented as the heroines of traditional biographies, or as the faceless victims of vast historical processes, but rarely have they been deemed worthy of historical enquiry. The Gentleman's Daughter provides an account of the lives of genteel women - the daughters of merchants, the wives of lawyers and the sisters of gentlemen. Based on a study of the letters, diaries and account books of over 100 women from commercial, professional and gentry families, mainly in prov...
2003 Taal: Engels zie alle details...
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2003 Uitgever: Yale University Press 448 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0300102224 ISBN-13: 9780300102222