Victorian Women
Subtitle: A Documentary Account of Women's Lives in Nineteenth-Century England, France and the United States
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: March 1981
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 534
ISBN-13: 9780804710961
Subjects: Social history; Women's studies; c 1800 to c 1900; Women's Studies - General; Sociology; History; 19th century; England; Sources; Women
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.