Title: Victorian writing and working women :
Authors: Swindells, Julia.
Date: 1985
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press,
Physical description: x, 236 pages ; 23 cm
Language: English
LC classification: P
Contents: Pt.1: Literature and the professions. 1. Outrageous claims. Nineteenth-century medicine -- a case study of professional power. Women writers. Conclusions. 2. George Eliot: man at work and the masculine professional. The artisan. 'Mental' work. 3. Representational responsibilities in Dickens Representing woman -- a sliding scale of mythologies. 4. The Gentleman's Club, literature. Gaskell and Thackeray. Gaskell. Pt. 2: Working women autobiographers. 5. Working women autobiographers. Introduction. Working women and initial experience of class. 6. 'Women's issues'. Women's Rights. 7. An itch for scribbling. The literary. Working, writing. Writing, working. 8. Professional historians, amateur brain surgeons. Witnesses, commentators and editors. Amateurs.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Autobiography--Women authors.; English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.; English prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.; Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.; Women and literature--Great Britain.; Women in literature.; Women--Employment--Great Britain--History--19th century.; Work in literature.; Working class writings, English--History and criticism.