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  • Women and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century England

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $96.18 CAD

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    A People's History of the Industrial Revolution

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Inconvenient People

    Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England

    par Sarah Wise ...
    Gaslight tales of rooftop escapes, men and women snatched in broad daylight, patients shut in coffins, a fanatical cult known as the Abode of Love.The nineteenth century saw repeated panics about sane individuals being locked away in lunatic asylums. With the rise of the 'mad-doctor' profession, English liberty seemed to be threatened by a new generation of medical men willing to incarcerate ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Family Secrets

    The Things We Tried to Hide

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Behind Closed Doors

    At Home in Georgian England

    par Amanda Vickery ...
    From the award-winning author of The Gentleman's Daughter,a witty and academic illumination of daily domestic life in Georgian England.In this brilliant work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her ... En savoir plus

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  • Women's Lives

    Researching Women's Social History, 1800–1939

    par Jennifer Newby ...
    Collections series How Your Ancestors Lived
    "Helps you put those in your female line into context, whether they were factory workers, Land Girls, aristocrats, or even criminals!" — Family History MonthlyWomen's lives have traditionally gone unrecorded in history. But housewives, factory girls and servants all had their own distinctive voices, and, if you know where to look, there are plenty of sources to explore.Jennifer Newby's guide to ... En savoir plus

    $11.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Middle Class

    A History

    par Lawrence James ...
    A compelling and entertaining history of the British middle class'Wonderful' Financial Times'A magisterial, sweeping history' Herald'An enchanting compendium' TLS'Full of fascinating quotations and figures' Literary Review**'**A rollicking, affectionate romp' The Times'Gripping and illuminating'... ... En savoir plus

    $26.99 CAD

  • Enigma A New Life of Charles Stewart Parnell

    par Paul Bew ...
    Charles Stewart Parnell is the most enigmatic figure in Irish history. An Anglo-Irish landlord from a distinguished Wicklow family, he became the most unlikely leader of Irish nationalism imaginable. He hated the colour green. He was not a dynamic speaker. He was cold and aloof and lacked the popular touch. None the less, from the late 1870s until his fall and death in 1891, he held the whole of ... En savoir plus

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  • Decency and Disorder

    The Age of Cant 1789-1837

    par Ben Wilson ...
    Brilliant young historian Ben Wilson explores a time when licentious Britain tried to straighten out its moral code, ridding itself of its boisterous pastimes, plain-speaking and drunkenness - raising uncomfortable but fascinating parallels with our own age. Decency and Disorder is about the generation who grew up during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, and some of its most exciting figures. ... En savoir plus

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  • Below Stairs

    Domestic Service Remembered in Dublin and Beyond, 1880-1922

    par Mona Hearn ...
    A hundred years ago sevants underpinned middle- and upper-class life in Ireland, and domestic service was the major source of employment for women before social conditions changed utterly after the First World War and labour-saving appliances took their place. Two generations on, the domestic servant is an almost extinct species. This book examines an area of life which has never been adequately ... En savoir plus

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  • Muckraker

    The Scandalous Life and Times of W. T. Stead, Britain's First Investigative Journalist

    par W. Sydney Robinson ...
    A major work by a brilliant young biographer, Muckraker details the tenacity and verve of one of Victorian Britain's most compelling characters. Credited with pioneering investigative reporting, W. T. Stead made a career of 'muckraking': revealing horrific practices in the hope of shocking authorities into reform. As the editor of the Northern Echo, he won the admiration of the Liberal statesman ... En savoir plus

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  • The English Marriage

    par Maureen Waller, Maureen Waller ...
    The story of the English marriage is unique and eccentric. Long after the rest of Europe and neighbouring Scotland had reformed their marriage laws, England clung to the chaotic and contradictory laws of the medieval Church, making it all too easy to enter into a marriage but virtually impossible to end an unhappy one.If England was a 'paradise for wives' it could only have been through the ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD