The Gentleman's Daughter by Amanda Vickery

The Gentleman's Daughter by Amanda Vickery

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An account of the lives of genteel women in Georgian England. It studies the letters, diaries and account books of over 100 women, and challenges the view that the period witnessed a division of the everyday worlds of privileged men and women into the separate spheres of home and work.

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The Gentleman's Daughter by Amanda Vickery

An account of the lives of genteel women in Georgian England. It studies the letters, diaries and account books of over 100 women, and challenges the view that the period witnessed a division of the everyday worlds of privileged men and women into the separate spheres of home and work.

Amanda Vickery is a Royal Holloway College, University of London, Reader in Women's History. The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Life in Georgian England is her first book.

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ISBN 13 9780300080025
ISBN 10 0300080026
Title The Gentleman's Daughter
Author Amanda Vickery
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Yale University Press
Year published 1999-07-11
Number of pages 448
Prizes Winner of Longman/History Today Book of the Year Prize 1999, Winner of Royal Historical Society Whitfield Prize 1999, Winner of Whitfield Prize 1999, Winner of Wolfson Literary Award for History 1999
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