Book contents
- In Search of the New Woman
- In Search of the New Woman: Middle-Class Women and Work in Britain 1870–1914
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 ‘a sort of Bogeywhom no-one has ever seen’? The nature of the search
- 2 ‘all that she sees before her … is teaching’: formal schooling and its opportunities
- 3 ‘the exercise of what may be termed her maternal faculties’: public service and ‘caring’ occupations
- 4 ‘impossible for a lady to remain a lady’: art, literature and thetheatre
- 5 ‘The real social divide existed between those who … dirtied hands and face and those who did not’: women white-collar workers (I)
- 6 ‘a beggarly makeshift, but for me it was wealth beyond price’: women white-collar workers (II)
- 7 Ladies and women
- 8 Some conclusions: degrees of freedom
- Sources and select bibliography
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2015
- In Search of the New Woman
- In Search of the New Woman: Middle-Class Women and Work in Britain 1870–1914
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 ‘a sort of Bogeywhom no-one has ever seen’? The nature of the search
- 2 ‘all that she sees before her … is teaching’: formal schooling and its opportunities
- 3 ‘the exercise of what may be termed her maternal faculties’: public service and ‘caring’ occupations
- 4 ‘impossible for a lady to remain a lady’: art, literature and thetheatre
- 5 ‘The real social divide existed between those who … dirtied hands and face and those who did not’: women white-collar workers (I)
- 6 ‘a beggarly makeshift, but for me it was wealth beyond price’: women white-collar workers (II)
- 7 Ladies and women
- 8 Some conclusions: degrees of freedom
- Sources and select bibliography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- In Search of the New WomanMiddle-Class Women and Work in Britain 1870–1914, pp. 175 - 187Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015