Author: Marianne YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Aldershot, and All about It, with Gossip, Literary, Military and Pictorial
Author: Marianne YoungAldershot, and All about it
Author: Marianne YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aldershot (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Women of the Regiment
Author: Myna TrustramPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521262941
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This book is a detailed study of the domestic background of life in the Victorian army. It describes the lives of women who lived on the edge of the regimental community as wives, daughters, prostitutes, lovers and workers. It examines the development of policy on marriage of men in the ranks and discusses the links between the military regulation of marriage and Victorian legislation on prostitution. The early history of the service family and the sources of welfare available to families - the poor law, philanthropy, and the regimental system itself - are examined in the light of attitudes to soldiers' marriages. Women of the Regiment reveals the hitherto unexplored role played by the military in shaping Victorian social policy, domestic ideology and attitudes to sexuality. Its originality lies in its feminist discussions of an institution notorious as a male stronghold; as such it makes a vital contribution to our understanding of the nature of masculinity and women's oppression.
The Church of England quarterly review
Author: Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace
Author: Kate SummerscalePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802743684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
"I think people marry far too much; it is such a lottery, and for a poor woman--bodily and morally the husband's slave--a very doubtful happiness." -Queen Victoria to her recently married daughter Vicky Headstrong, high-spirited, and already widowed, Isabella Walker became Mrs. Henry Robinson at age 31 in 1844. Her first husband had died suddenly, leaving his estate to a son from a previous marriage, so she inherited nothing. A successful civil engineer, Henry moved them, by then with two sons, to Edinburgh's elegant society in 1850. But Henry traveled often and was cold and remote when home, leaving Isabella to her fantasies. No doubt thousands of Victorian women faced the same circumstances, but Isabella chose to record her innermost thoughts-and especially her infatuation with a married Dr. Edward Lane-in her diary. Over five years the entries mounted-passionate, sensual, suggestive. One fateful day in 1858 Henry chanced on the diary and, broaching its privacy, read Isabella's intimate entries. Aghast at his wife's perceived infidelity, Henry petitioned for divorce on the grounds of adultery. Until that year, divorce had been illegal in England, the marital bond being a cornerstone of English life. Their trial would be a cause celebre, threatening the foundations of Victorian society with the specter of "a new and disturbing figure: a middle class wife who was restless, unhappy, avid for arousal." Her diary, read in court, was as explosive as Flaubert's Madame Bovary, just published in France but considered too scandalous to be translated into English until the 1880s. As she accomplished in her award-winning and bestselling The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, Kate Summerscale brilliantly recreates the Victorian world, chronicling in exquisite and compelling detail the life of Isabella Robinson, wherein the longings of a frustrated wife collided with a society clinging to rigid ideas about sanity, the boundaries of privacy, the institution of marriage, and female sexuality.
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: Aldershot, and All about It, with Gossip, Literary, Military, and Pictorial
Author: Marianne YoungPublisher:
ISBN: 9780461758580
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
The Athenaeum
Author: The Plays of Shakespeare. Edited by Howard Staunton; the Illustrations by John Gilbert; Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel
Author: William ShakespeareSam Slick in England; or, The attaché, by the author of 'The clockmaker'.
Author: Thomas Chandler HaliburtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description