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Women in English life from mediæval to modern times. By Georgiana Hill.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia BI 1896 Hill
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hill, Georgiana.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--History.
- Women.
- Women--Great Britain.
- Women--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Cloth bindings
- Informational works.
- Gilt edges
- Physical Description:
- 2 v. fronts. (ports.) 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London, R. Bentley & son, 1896.
- Contents:
- [Vol I] Women in the days of feudalism. A mediæval manor-house
- Learning before the days of the printing press
- The rise of the middle classes
- Women and the ancient gilds
- A mediæval nun
- The church as a social factor
- Almsgiving in olden times
- England after the Renaissance. Family life after the fall of feudalism
- The scholars of the sixteenth century
- A lady's education in the seventeenth century
- Glimpses at great ladies
- Every-day life in the Stuart period
- Petitioners to Parliament
- Heroines of the civil war
- The martyr periods: religious zeal and religious apathy
- Witchcraft
- Women and the arts
- Life in the last century. Matrons and maids
- The great lady of the eighteenth century. [Vol II] Life in the last century. The political influence of women
- The bas-bleu
- The philanthropists
- Sermons in drawing-rooms
- Women in the Victorian era. Change of ideal
- The modern great lady
- Women as travellers and explorers
- Educational advance
- Women in literature
- Art as a profession
- The gentlewoman in trade
- The modern woman of business
- The factory hand
- The domestic servant
- The modern humanitarian movement
- The sisterhood system
- The freedom of dissent
- Woman as nurse
- Woman as doctor
- Women and modern politics
- Women and public work
- The claim for political equality.
- Notes:
- Publisher's device on t.p.
- Vol. II insert after title page reads: "Errata. Vol. II., page 16, lines 14 and 22, for "Stairs" read "Stair". "Women in English Life.""
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in blue cloth, lettering in gilt on spine; top gilt.
- Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.
- Athenaeum copy: Stamped on title page of each volume: "Received Jun 8 1896."
- OCLC:
- 395542
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