Publicado por George Allen & Unwin, London, Boston, 1979
ISBN 10: 0049000330 ISBN 13: 9780049000339
Librería: Lost and Found Books, Healesville, VIC, Australia
Original o primera edición
pictorial hard cover. No Jacket. First edition. 23 cm. XXI, 331 pages VG. Light shelf wear to covers, a very little soiling to page edges, overall very good condition.
Publicado por George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London, 1979
ISBN 10: 0049000330 ISBN 13: 9780049000339
Librería: Great Southern Books, King River, WA, Australia
Original o primera edición
Trade Paperback. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 336 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. This book is available and ready to be shipped. Assembling a full and comprehensive collection of material which illustrates all aspects of the emergent women?s movement during the years 1850-1900, this fascinating book will prove invaluable to students of nineteenth century social history and women's studies, to those studying the Victorian novel and to sociologists. Women?s pamphlets and speeches, parliamentary debates and popular journalism, letters and memoirs, royal commissions and the leading reviews, are all used to document the conflicting images of women: ?surplus women? and the issue of emigration; women?s work and male hostility to it; the opening of education by Emily Davies; the claim to equity at law; the attack on the sexual double standard, led by Josephine Butler; women?s public service from philanthropy ? exemplified in a Mary Carpenter or Louisa Twining or Octavia Hill ? to local government; and finally women?s entry into politics led by Lydia Becker. The contents range from Caroline Norton on her battle for child custody in the 1830s to Annie Besant?s inspiration of the match-girl?s strike in 1888, and from W. T. Stead on child prostitution to Mrs Humphrey War?s Appeal against female suffrage in 1889. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Women & Feminism; English History; Britain/UK; History. ISBN: 0049000330. ISBN/EAN: 9780049000339. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9261.