Women and Welfare: Ten Victorian Women in Public Social Service

by Julia Parker

The aim of this study is to explain why some middle-class Victorian women took up various kinds of public social service, as social workers, researchers or reformers. The conventions of the time made it difficult for women to move out of family into public life and the nature of the work they chose demanded great physical and mental courage and endurance. The author examines the family and social background and the individual character of ten famous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333463862
• ISBN13: 9780333463864
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"