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  • Illegitimacy in English law and society, 1860–1930

    by Ginger Frost ...
    This book explores the legal and social consequences of growing up illegitimate in England and Wales. Unlike most other studies of illegitimacy, Frost's book concentrates on the late-Victorian period and the early twentieth century, and takes the child's point of view rather than that of the mother or of 'child-saving' groups. Doing so allows for an extended analysis of criminal and civil cases ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

  • Living in sin

    Cohabiting as husband and wife in nineteenth-century England

    by Ginger Frost ...
    Series series Gender in History
    Living in sin is the first book-length study of cohabitation in nineteenth-century England, based on research into the lives of hundreds of couples. ‘Common-law’ marriages did not have any legal basis, so the Victorian courts had to wrestle with unions that resembled marriage in every way, yet did not meet its most basic requirements.The majority of those who lived in irregular unions did so ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • Audiobook

    In Your Dreams

    The Falling Series 4

    by Ginger Scott ...
    Narrated by Allie Martina, Gideon Frost ...
    Series Audiobook 4 - The Falling Series

    Unabridged

    11 hours 12 min

    Casey Coffield has a growing list of personal flaws he keeps locked away in his head:He’s never on time.His list of IOUs to his best friend is endless.Money is always short.Goals are never in reach.Oh, and he’s decided to add college drop-out to that list, too. He doesn’t really think that last one’s such a bad thing, but his family insists it is, so it stays on the list.On paper, he’s a zero. But ... Read more

    $21.97 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Victorian World

    Facts and Fictions

    by Ginger S. Frost ...
    Series series Historical Facts and Fictions
    An introduction to the myths and realities of the history of Victorian Britain, with accompanying primary sources.While the Victorian era captivates many today, much of what people believe about the Victorian world is actually false. This book looks at nine specific myths about Victorian Britain, explaining how the myths perpetuated and then showing why they are inaccurate. Coverage spans 1830 ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD

  • Global Youth Migration and Gendered Modalities

    Subjectivities and modalities

    by Ivy Forsythe-Brown, Elif Gökçearslan Çifci, Bayram Unal, Siera Vercillo, Logan Cochrane, Andrea Racz, Ibolya Czibere, Ermira Danaj, Pamela Aronson, Alessandro Bozzetti, Gabriel Asselin, Maria Veronica G. Caparas, Dilek Kurnaz, Ina Batzke, Raihan M. Sharif, Medina Ina Niang, Mairena Hirschberg, Ginger Frost, Rebecca J Bates ...
    Youth migration is a global phenomenon, and it is gendered. This collection presents original studies on gender and youth migration from the 19th century onwards, from international and interdisciplinary perspectives.An international group of contributors explore the imperial histories of youth migration, their identities and sexualities, the impact of education, policies and practices, and the ... Read more

    $47.19 CAD

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  • Women and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century England

    by Mrs Joan Perkin, Joan Perkin ...
    The 'bonds of matrimony' describes with cruel precision the social and political status of married women in the nineteenth century. Women of all classes had only the most limited rights of possession in their own bodies and property yet, as this remarkable book shows, women of all classes found room to manoeuvre within the narrow limits imposed on them. Upper-class women frequently circumvented ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Liberty's Dawn

    A People's History of the Industrial Revolution

    by Emma Griffin ...
    "Emma Griffin gives a new and powerful voice to the men and women whose blood and sweat greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution" (Tim Hitchcock, author of Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London).This "provocative study" looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Family Secrets

    The Things We Tried to Hide

    by Deborah Cohen ...
    A Sunday Telegraph and Times Higher Education 'Book of the Week', Deborah Cohen's Family Secrets is a gripping book about what families - Victorian and modern - try to hide, and why.In an Edinburgh town house, a genteel maiden lady frets with her brother over their niece's downy upper lip. Would the darkening shadow betray the girl's Eurasian heritage? On a Liverpool railway platform, a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Feminism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Margaret Walters ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    How much have women's lives really changed? In the West women still come up against the 'glass ceiling' at work, most earning considerably less than their male counterparts. What are we to make of the now commonplace insistence that feminism deprives men of their rights and dignities? And how does one tackle the issue of female emancipation in different cultural and economic environments - in, for ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

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  • A Man's Place

    Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England

    by Professor John Tosh ...
    Domesticity is generally treated as an aspect of women’s history. In this fascinating study of the nineteenth-century middle class, John Tosh shows how profoundly men’s lives were conditioned by the Victorian ideal and how they negotiated its many contradictions.Tosh begins by looking at the experience of boyhood, married life, sex, and fatherhood in the early decades of the nineteenth century ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Child Sexual Abuse in Victorian England

    by Louise A. Jackson ...
    Series series Women's and Gender History
    Child Sexual Abuse in Victorian England is the first detailed investigation of the way that child abuse was discovered, debated, diagnosed and dealt with in the Victorian and Edwardian periods.The focus is placed on the child and his or her experience of court procedure and welfare practice, thereby providing a unique and important evaluation of the treatment of children in the courtroom. Through ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The English in Love

    The Intimate Story of an Emotional Revolution

    by Claire Langhamer ...
    Love has a history. It has meant different things to different people at different moments and has served different purposes. This book tells the story of love at a crucial point, a moment when the emotional landscape changed dramatically for large numbers of people. It is a story based in England, but informed by America, and covers the period from the end of the First World War until the break ... Read more

    $11.59 CAD