Women and Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century England
Subtitle: On the Town
Contributors: Rosemary Sweet (Editor); Penelope Lane (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: November 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780754607304
Subjects: Sociology; History; Congresses; Social Science; Women's Studies - General; Women; 18th century; British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Social history; Women's studies; c 1700 to c 1800; City and town life; Europe - Great Britain - General; England
First sentence: As an area of historical research the eighteenth-century town has been attracting considerable attention: in the past two years, no less than three studies have been published in addition to the monumental Cambridge Urban History of Britain.