The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England

by Amanda Vickery

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What was the life of an eighteenth-century British genteel woman like? In this lively and controversial book, Amanda Vickery invokes women's own accounts of their intimate and their public lives to argue that in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the scope of female experience did not diminish-in fact, quite the reverse. Refuting the common understanding that in Georgian times the daughters of merchants, the wives of lawyers, and the sisters of gentlemen lost female freedoms and retreated into their homes, Vickery shows that these women experienced expanding social and intellectual horizons. As they embraced a world far beyond...Read more
  • ISBN10 0300102224
  • ISBN13 9780300102222
  • Publish Date 11 August 2003 (first published 11 July 1998)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Yale University Press