Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel
Subtitle: Women, Work and Home (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 13, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780521021180
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; History and criticism; Gender Studies; Social Science; Sociology; Women and literature; Domestic fiction, English; Domestic fiction, English--History and critic; Domestic fiction, English--History and criticism; Social Science / Gender Studies; English fiction; 19th century; Great Britain; History
First sentence: In 1839, Sarah Ellis prefaced her lengthy meditation on Victorian domesticity and the condition of English women by pronouncing a truly oceanic sentence: