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Working-Class Girls in Nineteenth-Century England

Life, Work and Schooling

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  • © 1997

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  1. Meg Gomersall
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Meg Gomersall
    Pages 1-7

  3. Patriarchy Challenged? Women and Work in Nineteenth-century Industrial Lancashire

    • Meg Gomersall
    Pages 8-29

  4. Women’s Work in Agricultural Production: Nineteenth-century Norfolk and Suffolk

    • Meg Gomersall
    Pages 30-44

  5. Schooling for Social Control? The Early Nineteenth Century

    • Meg Gomersall
    Pages 45-61

  6. Religion, Reading and Really Useful Knowledge

    • Meg Gomersall
    Pages 62-77

  7. An Education of Principle: the Later Nineteenth Century

    • Meg Gomersall
    Pages 78-99

  8. Schooling for Domesticity? The Later Nineteenth Century

    • Meg Gomersall
    Pages 100-122

  9. What a Woman Knows: the Significance of Education in the Lives of Working-class Women

    • Meg Gomersall
    Pages 123-137

  10. From the Past to the Present

    • Meg Gomersall
    Pages 138-149

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 151-187
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This book is concerned with the nineteenth-century education, family life and employment of working-class girls and women. Based on extensive local research, it also draws on evidence from social, labour and women's history in a wide-ranging analysis of the purposes and practices of girls' education within a variety of forms of schooling, both public and private.

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MARGARET GOMERSALL

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