Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-87749-5 (ISBN)
This volume is the first to identify a significant body of life narratives by working-class women and to demonstrate their inherent literary significance. Placing each memoir within its generic, historical, and biographical context, this book traces the shifts in such writings over time, examines the circumstances which enabled working-class women authors to publish their life stories, and places these memoirs within a wider autobiographical tradition. Additionally, Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women enables readers to appreciate the clear-sightedness, directness, and poignancy of these works.
Florence S. Boos is Professor at the University of Iowa. She is the editor of Working-Class Women Poets of Victorian Britain: An Anthology (2008) and many articles and two special issues devoted to Victorian working-class writings. She is also the general editor of the William Morris Archive and the author/editor of several books on William Morris.
1 Introduction: The Hard Way Up.- 2 Uneven Access: Working-Class Women and the Education Acts.- 3 Under Physical Siege: The Early Victorian Autobiographies of Elizabeth Stories and Mary Prince.- 4 Memoir and People's History in Janet Hamilton's Sketches of Village Life.- 5 The Annals of the Poor--Rural and Conversion Narratives: Elizabeth Campbell, Christian Watt, Elizabeth Oakley, Mrs. Collier, Jane Andrew, and Barbara Farquhar.- 6 The Servant Writes Back: Mary Ann Ashford's Life of a Licensed Victualler's Daughter.- 7 Ellen Johnston: Autobiographical Writings of "The Factory Girl".- 8 From Servant to Schoolmistress: Janet Bathgate and Mary Smith.- 9 Truth,' 'Fiction' and Collaboration in The Autobiography of a Charwoman.- 10 Concluding Remarks.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.11.2018 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Palgrave Studies in Life Writing |
| Zusatzinfo | XIV, 343 p. 20 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Gewicht | 470 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Schlagworte | affect of Education Act of 1870 on working-class w • affect of Education Act of 1870 on working-class women • daily lives of Victorian working-class women • Dinah Mulock Craik's Mistress and Maid • education of working-class girls in Victorian Engl • education of working-class girls in Victorian England • experiences of rural Victorian working class women • Janet Bathgate • Janet Hamilton's Sketches of Village Life • living conditions of Victorian female servants • Marianne Farningham • Peig Sayers • Queen of the Penny Post • Susan Hopley, or the Adventures of a Maidservant • The Autobiography of a Charwoman • The Autobiography of Rose Allen • Victorian female factory workers • Victorian female servants • Victorian working class women and religion • Victorian working-class women's autobiographies • Victorian working class women's experience of inst • Victorian working class women's experience of institutions • Victorian working-class women's experiences of abu • Victorian working-class women's experiences of abuse |
| ISBN-10 | 3-319-87749-6 / 3319877496 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-319-87749-5 / 9783319877495 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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