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Paperback From Spinster to Career Woman: Middle-Class Women and Work in Victorian England Book

ISBN: 0773557075

ISBN13: 9780773557079

From Spinster to Career Woman: Middle-Class Women and Work in Victorian England

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The late Victorian period brought a radical change in cultural attitudes toward middle-class women and work. Anxiety over the growing disproportion between women and men in the population, combined with an awakening desire among young women for personal and financial freedom, led progressive thinkers to advocate for increased employment opportunities. The major stumbling block was the persistent conviction that middle-class women - "ladies" - could...

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