Working-Class Girls in Nineteenth-Century England: Life, Work and Schooling

By Margaret C. Gomersall, Meg Gomersall, C. Margaret Gomersall

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333622014
• ISBN13: 9780333622018
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"