In search of the new woman : middle-class women and work in Britain, 1870-1914

Publication Data

• Title In search of the new woman : middle-class women and work in Britain, 1870-1914
• Author Gillian Sutherland
• Publisher Cambridge University Press
• Publication date 2015
• Publication location Cambridge, UK
• Language English

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. 'A sort of bogey whom no-one has ever seen'? The nature of the search; 2. 'All that she sees before her... is teaching'; formal schooling and its opportunities; 3. 'The exercise of what may be termed her maternal faculties'; public service and 'caring' occupations; 4. 'Impossible for a lady to remain a lady'; art, literature and the theatre; 5. 'The real social divide existed between those who... dirtied hands and face and those who did not': women white collar workers (I); 6. 'A beggarly makeshift, but for me it was wealth beyond price': women white collar workers (II); 7. Ladies and women; 8. Some conclusions: degrees of freedom; Sources and select bibliography.

Topics

• Women :: Great Britain :: Social conditions :: 19th century
• Women :: Great Britain :: Social conditions :: 20th century
• Middle class women :: Great Britain :: Social conditions :: 19th century
• Middle class women :: Great Britain :: Social conditions :: 20th century
• Women employees :: Great Britain :: History :: 19th century
• Women employees :: Great Britain :: History :: 20th century
• Women white collar workers :: Great Britain :: Social conditions :: 19th century
• Women white collar workers :: Great Britain :: Social conditions :: 20th century
• Great Britain :: Social conditions :: 19th century
• Great Britain :: Social conditions :: 20th century
• Great Britain

In search of the new woman : middle-class women and work in Britain, 1870-1914 by Gillian Sutherland. ISBN 9781107467347. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.