Working-class Girls In Nineteenth-century England: Life, Work, And Schooling Working-class Girls In 19th-century England

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. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction....Pages 1-7 Patriarchy Challenged? Women and Work in Nineteenth-century Industrial Lancashire....Pages 8-29 Women’s Work in Agricultural Production: Nineteenth-century Norfolk and Suffolk....Pages 30-44 Schooling for Social Control? The Early Nineteenth Century....Pages 45-61 Religion, Reading and Really Useful Knowledge....Pages 62-77 An Education of Principle: the Later Nineteenth Century....Pages 78-99 Schooling for Domesticity? The Later Nineteenth Century....Pages 100-122 What a Woman Knows: the Significance of Education in the Lives of Working-class Women....Pages 123-137 From the Past to the Present....Pages 138-149 Back Matter....Pages 151-187 Based on local research, this work examines 19th-century education, family life and employment of working-class girls and women. It also draws on evidence from social, labour and women's history in an analysis of the purpose and practices of girls' education, both public and private Meg Gomersall ; Consultant Editor, Jo Campling. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 170-183) And Index.