Women in England 1760-1914: A Social History - Tapa dura

a readable and fresh accont of women's lives between the reign of George III and the First World War. The book offers a skillful synthesis of a range of published material relating to women of all social classes - working class, middle class, and elite women, including Queens Charlotte and Victoria. The themes explored include life expectancy, sex, marriage and childbirth, religion, education, work inside and outside the home, as well as political activism. (HISTORY TODAY)

Steinbach's lively survey brings together the results of researches to offer a revealing portrait of women's lives in every class and all areas of life. (THE SCOTSMAN)

Women in England is a grand sweep of a book, a well-researched , freshly written, and unexpectedly entertaining look at "the long 19th century" from women's points of view... an engaging synthesis. (THE INDEPENDENT)

Women in England is a first stop for the reader who wants a survey of this important but, until fairly recently, neglected subject. (CHURCH TIMES)

This book brings together an astonishing range of research into women's lives in England between 1760 and 1914. Using diaries, letters, memoirs as well as social and statistical research, it looks at life-expectancy, sex, marriage and childbirth, and work inside and outside the home, for all classes of women. It charts the poverty and struggles of the working class as well as the leadership roles of middle-class and elite women. It considers the influence of religion, education, and politics, especially the advent of organised feminism and the suffragette movement. It looks, too, at the huge role played by women in the British Empire: how imperialism shaped English women's lives and how women also moulded the Empire.