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Family, love, and work in the lives of Victorian gentlewomen
Middle classes
Great britain, history, 19th century
Middle class
Women, great britain
Great britain, social conditions
Women
Social conditions
History
Physically frail, badly educated girls, brought up to lead useless lives as idle gentlewomen, married to dominant husbands, and relegated to "separate spheres" of life--these phrases have often been used to describe Victorian upper-middle-class women. M. Jeanne Peterson rejects such formulations and…
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