Gentleman's Daughter - Vickery Amanda
Gentleman's Daughter - Vickery Amanda What was the life of an eighteenth-century British genteel woman like? Refuting the common understanding that in Georgian times the daughters of merchants, the…
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Gentleman's Daughter - Vickery Amanda
What was the life of an eighteenth-century British genteel woman like? 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. 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.
As they embraced a world far beyond the boundaries of their own parishes through their tireless writing and ravenous reading, genteel women also enjoyed an array of emerging new public arenas--assembly rooms, concert series, theater seasons, circulating libraries, day-time lectures,
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