The Feminine Irony: Women on Women in Early-nineteenth-century English LiteratureFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1978 - 190 páginas |
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... servant was the primary sexual opportunity of society before the twentieth century , and the innumerable variations upon ... servants . They were expected to work seven days a week with time off only to attend church , and their " wages ...
... servant was the primary sexual opportunity of society before the twentieth century , and the innumerable variations upon ... servants . They were expected to work seven days a week with time off only to attend church , and their " wages ...
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... servants . The higher the class to which a woman belonged , the more servants she had . Truly prosperous women were for the most part idle , encouraged to do little more than arrange flowers , write letters , and supervise menus . Among ...
... servants . The higher the class to which a woman belonged , the more servants she had . Truly prosperous women were for the most part idle , encouraged to do little more than arrange flowers , write letters , and supervise menus . Among ...
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... servants . The only choice they had was whether to be efficient or derelict in their duties . As for the ignorant McClarty family , the author has Mrs. Mason explain what happened , lest the reader have any doubt about the certainty of ...
... servants . The only choice they had was whether to be efficient or derelict in their duties . As for the ignorant McClarty family , the author has Mrs. Mason explain what happened , lest the reader have any doubt about the certainty of ...
Contenido
PREFACE | 9 |
Ladies of Labor and Ladies of Leisure | 21 |
To Scrub the Floor or Dance upon | 47 |
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The Feminine Irony: Women on Women in Early-nineteenth-century English ... Lynne Agress Sin vista previa disponible - 1978 |
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