While the image of bourgeois Victorian women as 'angels in the house' isolated from the world in private domesticity has long been dismissed as an unrealistic ideal, women have remained marginalised in many recent accounts of the public culture of the middle class. Simon Morgan, aiming to redress the balance, argues that women actually played an important role in the formation of the public identity of the Victorian middle class. Through their support for cultural and philanthropic associations and their engagement in political campaigns, women developed a nascent civic identity, which for some informed their later demands for political rights. A Victorian Woman's Place offers numerous insights for the reader into the public lives of women in this fascinating period.
- ISBN10 6612750553
- ISBN13 9786612750557
- Publish Date 24 January 2007
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 15 June 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint I. B. Tauris & Company
- Format eBook
- Pages 288
- Language English