Victorian Women
Subtitle: A Documentary Account of Women's Lives in 19th Century England, France and the United States
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: March 1981
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 534
ISBN-13: 9780804710886
Subjects: Sociology; Women's Studies - General; England; Women; History; History Of Women (General); 19th century; Sources; Social Science; History: World
First sentence: The French peasants of the Franche-Comte believed that it was bad luck for a household if an owl hooted upon the chimney, for it meant that someone would soon die-or that a daughter would be born.