How to Make It as a Woman: Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present

by Alison Booth

Book Overview

How to Make It as a Woman outlines the history of prosopography or group biography, focusing on the all-female collections that took hold in nineteenth-century Britain and America. The queens, nurses, writers, reformers, adventurers, even assassins in these collective female biographies served as models to guide the moral development of young women. But often these famous historical women presented untrustworthy examples.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226065464
• ISBN13: 9780226065465
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 8.9"