Girls Growing Up in Late Victorian and Edwardian England

Girls Growing Up in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
Author: Carol Dyhouse
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2012-10-09
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0415623219

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Girls learn about "femininity" from childhood onwards, first through their relationships in the family, and later from their teachers and peers. Using sources which vary from diaries to Inspector’s reports, this book studies the socialization of middle- and working-class girls in late Victorian and early-Edwardian England. It traces the ways in which schooling at all social levels at this time tended to reinforce lessons in the sexual division of labour and patterns of authority between men and women, which girls had already learned at home. Considering the social anxieties that helped to shape the curriculum offered to working-class girls through the period 1870-1920, the book goes on to focus on the emergence of a social psychology of adolescent girlhood in the early-twentieth century and finally, examines the relationship between feminism and girls’ education.

Girls Growing Up in Late Victorian and Edwardian England

Girls Growing Up in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
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Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2013
Genre:
ISBN: 9780203104255

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Girls learn about "femininity" from childhood onwards, first through their relationships in the family, and later from their teachers and peers. Using sources which vary from diaries to Inspector' s reports, this book studies the socialization of middle- and working-class girls in late Victorian and early-Edwardian England. It traces the ways in which schooling at all social levels at this time tended to reinforce lessons in the sexual division of labour and patterns of authority between men and women, which girls had already learned at home.

Eliza Lowe and the Founding of Woodard Schools for Girls

Eliza Lowe and the Founding of Woodard Schools for Girls
Author: Penny Thompson
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2021-04-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0718848268

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Eliza Lowe, with two of her sisters, ran a school for girls, aged between 13 and 18, first in Liverpool, then in Southgate Middlesex. The book covers her life in Whitchurch, Burton on Trent, Everton, Liverpool and finally in Middlesex. It describes her school and investigates the lives of some her pupils, one from the influential Rathbone family and one who became a suffragist. Life in the school is described thanks to extant unpublished letters from pupils. An appendix continues the story of her school after her death when her niece took over and later became Headmistress of one of the early Woodard girls' schools in Bangor.

Growing Up in England

Growing Up in England
Author: Anthony Fletcher
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 612
Release: 2010-04-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300168209

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This book presents an entirely fresh view of the upbringing of English children in upper and professional class families over three centuries. Drawing on direct testimony from contemporary diaries and letters, the book revises previous understandings of parenting and what it was like to grow up in the period between 1600 and 1914.Using advice literature which set out developing ideologies of childhood, gender and parenting, the book explores the separate but complementary roles of mothers and fathers in raising their children. Male upbringing is discussed in terms of schooling, female through the moral and social context of a domestic schoolroom dominated by a governess. Boys were trained for the world, girls for society and marriage. Rare teenage diaries surviving from the Georgian and Victorian periods show teenagers speaking for themselves about education; relationships with parents, siblings and friends; and their social, class and gender identity.

The Victorian Girl and the Feminine Ideal

The Victorian Girl and the Feminine Ideal
Author: Deborah Gorham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2012-12-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136248102

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In Victorian England, the perception of girlhood arose not in isolation, but as one manifestation of the prevailing conception of femininity. Examining the assumptions that underlay the education and upbringing of middle-class girls, this book is also a study of the learning of gender roles in theory and reality. It was originally published in 1982. The first two sections examine the image of women in the Victorian family, and the advice offered in printed sources on the rearing of daughters during the Victorian period. To illustrate the effect and evolution of feminine ideals over the Victorian period, the book’s final section presents the actual experiences of several middle-class Victorian women who represent three generations and range, socioeconomically, from lower-middle class through upper-middle class.

The Cosmopolitan Interior

The Cosmopolitan Interior
Author: Judy Neiswander
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2008
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

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"Judith Neiswander explains that during these years liberal values - individuality, cosmopolitanism, scientific rationalism, the progressive role of the elite and the emancipation of women - informed advice about the desirable appearance of the home. In the period preceding the First World War, these values changed dramatically: advice on decoration became more nationalistic in tone and a new goal was set for the interior - "to raise the British child by the British hearth." Neiswander traces this evolving discourse within the context of current writing on interior decoration, writing that it is much more detached from social and political issues of the day."--BOOK JACKET.

Girl Trouble

Girl Trouble
Author: Professor Carol Dyhouse
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2014-06-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 178032555X

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'A brilliant cultural history.' Irish Examiner Girls behave badly. If they're not obscenity-shouting, pint-swigging ladettes, they're narcissistic, living dolls floating around in a cloud of self-obsession, far too busy twerking to care. And this is news. In this witty and wonderful book, Carol Dyhouse shows that where there's a social scandal or a wave of moral outrage, you can bet a girl is to blame. Whether it be stories of 'brazen flappers' staying out and up all night in the 1920s, inappropriate places for Mars bars in the 1960s or Courtney Love's mere existence in the 1990s, bad girls have been a mass-media staple for more than a century. And yet, despite the continued obsession with their perceived faults and blatant disobedience, girls are infinitely better off today than they were a century ago. This is the story of the challenges and opportunities faced by young women growing up in the swirl of the twentieth century, and the pop-hysteria that continues to accompany their progress.

A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture

A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture
Author: Herbert F. Tucker
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 586
Release: 2014-02-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1118624483

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A NEW COMPANION TO VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE The Victorian period was a time of rapid cultural change, which resulted in a huge and varied literary output. A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture offers experienced guidance to the literature of nineteenth-century Britain and its social and historical context. This revised and expanded edition comprises contributions from over 30 leading scholars who, approaching the Victorian epoch from different positions and traditions, delve into the unruly complexities of the Victorian imagination. Divided into five parts, this new Companion surveys seven decades of history before examining the key phases in a Victorian life, the leading professions and walks of life, the major literary genres, the way Victorians defined their persons, homes, and national identity, and how recent “neo-Victorian” developments in contemporary culture reconfigure the sense we make of the past today. Important topics such as sexuality, denominational faith, social class, and global empire inform each chapter’s approach. Each chapter provides a comprehensive bibliography of established and emerging scholarship.

Past, Present, and Personal

Past, Present, and Personal
Author: John Demos
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1986
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

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The author examines the changing nature of the American family including issues of fatherhood, child abuse, adolescence, and old age.

Women and the Politics of Schooling in Victorian and Edwardian England

Women and the Politics of Schooling in Victorian and Edwardian England
Author: Jane Martin
Publisher: Leicester University Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1999
Genre: Education
ISBN:

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Focusing on 29 women members of the London School Board, this book examines the link between private lives and public practice in Victorian and Edwardian England. It looks at the women's role as educational policy makers.