03049oam 2200649I 450 991045311730332120200520144314.00-203-10407-21-299-44792-91-136-24797-110.4324/9780203104071 (CKB)2550000001018416(EBL)1163770(OCoLC)836401218(SSID)ssj0000906844(PQKBManifestationID)11566466(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000906844(PQKBWorkID)10856706(PQKB)11387078(MiAaPQ)EBC1163770(Au-PeEL)EBL1163770(CaPaEBR)ebr10682897(CaONFJC)MIL476042(EXLCZ)99255000000101841620180706e20131984 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEighteenth-century women an anthology /Bridget HillLondon ;New York :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (476 p.)Routledge library editions. Women's history ;v. 21"First published in 1984"--T.p. verso.1-138-00807-9 0-415-62388-X Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. Ideas of female perfection -- pt. 2. And the greatest of these was chastity -- pt. 3. Female education -- pt. 4. Approaching marriage -- pt. 5. Marriage and after -- pt. 6. Women's legal position : marriage law and custom -- pt. 7. Women without husbands -- pt. 8. Crime and punishment -- pt. 9. The female poor -- pt. 10. Women and agriculture -- pt. 11. Women in industry and other occupations -- pt. 12. Female domestic servants -- pt. 13. Women protest.When it was first published in 1984, this book filled an acknowledged gap in the social history of the period and made available hitherto inaccessible sources. The work draws on newspapers and journals, memoirs, diaries, courtesy books, county surveys and records, but also on the literature of the period, its novels, poetry and plays. It examines the role assigned to women in eighteenth-century society and the education thought fitting to perform it. It looks at attitudes to courtship and marriage, chastity and sexual passion. It explores the role of women as wives and mothers, as spinstersRoutledge library editions.Women's history.WomenHistory18th centuryQuotations, maxims, etcSex roleHistory18th centuryQuotations, maxims, etcSexual ethicsHistory18th centuryQuotations, maxims, etcElectronic books.WomenHistorySex roleHistorySexual ethicsHistory305.420941Hill Bridget.678104MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453117303321Eighteenth-century women1290117UNINA