Independent Women: Work and Community for Single Women, 1850-1920

by Martha Vicinus

Book Overview

Martha Vicinus's subject is the middle-class English woman, the first of her sex who could afford to live on her own earnings 'outside heterosexual domesticity or church governance.' She wanted and needed to work. Meticulous, resonant, original, triumphant, Independent Women tells of the efforts and endurance of this Victorian woman; of her courage and the constraints that she rejected, accepted, and created. . . . The independent women are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226855686
• ISBN13: 9780226855684
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"