Author: Mrs. Jameson (Anna)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nurses
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Sisters of Charity; And, The Communion of Labour
Author: Mrs. Jameson (Anna)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nurses
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Sisters of Charity and the Communion of Labour. Two lectures ... A new edition, enlarged and improved with a prefatory letter to Lord John Russell on the present condition and requirements of the Women of England
Author: Mrs. Jameson (Anna)Deaconesses; Or The Official Help of Women in Parochial Work and in Charitable Institutions: an Essay Reprinted with Large Additions, from the Quarterly Review, Sept. 1860
Author: John Saul Howson (Dean of Chester.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Deaconesses, Or, The Official Help of Women in Parochial Work and in Charitable Institutions
Author: John Saul HowsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deaconesses
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Representing Female Artistic Labour, 1848–1890
Author: Patricia ZakreskiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351904124
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Patricia Zakreski's interdisciplinary study draws on fiction, prose, painting, and the periodical press to expand and redefine our understanding of women's relationship to paid work during the Victorian period. While the idea of 'separate spheres' has largely gone uncontested by feminist critics studying female labour during the nineteenth century, Zakreski challenges this distinction by showing that the divisions between public and private were, in fact, surprisingly flexible, with homes described as workplaces and workplaces as homes. By combining art with forms of industrial or mass production in representations of the respectable woman worker, writers projected a form of paid creative work that was not violated or profaned by the public world of the market in which it was traded. Looking specifically at sewing, art, writing, and acting, Zakreski shows how these professions increasingly came to be defined as 'artistic' and thus as suitable professions for middle-class women, and argues that the supposedly degrading activity of paid work could be transformed into a refining experience for women. Rather than consigning working women to the margins of patriarchal culture, then, her study shows how representations of creative women, by authors such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dinah Craik, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and Charlotte Yonge, participated in and shaped new forms of mainstream culture.
The Life and Work of Adelaide Procter
Author: Gill GregoryPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429806787
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
First published in 1998, this volume follows the life and work of Adelaide Procter (1825-1864), one of the most important 19th-century women poets to be reassessed by literary critics in recent years. She was a significant figure in the Victorian literary landscape. A poet (who outsold most writers bar Tennyson), a philanthropist and Roman Catholic convert, Procter committed herself to the cause of single, fallen and homeless women. She was a key member of the Langham Place Circle of campaigning women and worked tirelessly for the society for Promoting the Employment of Women. Many of her poems are concerned with anonymous and displaced women who struggle to secure an identity and place in the world. She also writes boldly and unconventionally of women’s sexual desires. Loved and admired by her father the poet Bryan Procter, her editor Charles Dickens and her friend W.M. Thackeray, Procter wrote from the heart of London literary circles. From this position she mounted a subtle and creative critique of the ideas and often gendered positions adopted by male predecessors and contemporaries such as John Keble, Robert Browning and Dickens himself. Gill Gregory’s The Life and Work of Adelaide Procter: Poetry, Feminism and Fathers considers the career of this compelling and remarkable woman and discusses the extent to which she struggled to find her own voice in response to the works of some seminal literary ‘fathers’.
Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Catalogue of the Astor Library (continuation).
Author: Astor LibraryDeaconesses; or, The official help of women in parochial work and in charitable institutions. Repr., with additions, from the Quarterly review
Author: John Saul HowsonThe Origins of Modern Feminism
Author: Jane RendallPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1349177334
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This comparative study analyses the emergence of feminist movements and their differing characters in Britain, France and the United States. Jane Rendall examines the social, economic and cultural factors which affected women's status in society, and led some women to act, individually and collectively, to seek to change it. The Enlightenment emphasis on women's 'nature' and the evangelical stress on the moral potential of women contributed to a framework of ideas which could be used by conservatives and by feminists. Among the middle classes, discussion focused on the need to improve women's education and on the strengths and limitations of domesticity. Patterns of paid employment for women were shifting, and Jane Rendall suggests that the weak position of women in the labor market during the early stages of industrialisation restricted their ability to associate together. Yet involvement in religious, political and philanthropic movements could provide a means by which women might come together to identify their common concerns and learn the necessary political skills. Jane Rendall places the origins of feminism in the broader context of social and political change in the nineteenth century, looking both at the changing relationship between paid work and domestic life and at the links between feminism and class and political conflict in three different societies.