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Eighteenth-century women have long been presented as the heroines of traditional biographies, or as the faceless victims of vast historical processes, but rarely have they been deemed worthy of rigorous historical enquiry. Based on a close examination of letters, diaries and account books, this study offers an insight into the intimate and everyday lives of genteel women and transforms our understanding of the position of women in this period.
| ISBN | 0300102224 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9780300102222
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 354 | | Publisher | Yale University Press | | Published in | New Haven | | Imprint | Yale University Press | | Series title | Yale Nota Bene S. | | Format | Paperback | | Previous ISBN | 9780300080025 | | Publication date | 14 Nov 2003 | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Library of Congress | HQ1599.E5 | | Width (mm) | 133 | | DEWEY | 305.420942 | | Spine width (mm) | 28 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly | | Pages | 448 | |
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"The most important thing in English feminist history in the last ten years." Roy Porter; "The Gentleman's Daughter is the most important work of social history since Lawrence Stone's Family, Sex and Marriage. From now on, any historian writing about 18th-century women will have to address the arguments in Vickery's book... It is the first book to bring out into the open the debate about separate spheres. It succeeds on two levels, first as an academic argument of the highest order, and second as a fascinating and enjoyable read. Serious history is rarely this fun." Amanda Foreman, The Times; "Innovative, expertly researched and luminous in style." Linda Colley, London Review of Books; "Amanda Vickery's new history of women in Georgian England offers a revolutionary reinterpretation of the accepted script, both an academic triumph and a spell-binding read" Julie Wheelwright, The Independent  Be the first to write a customer review
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