Relative Creatures: Victorian Women in Society and the Novel, 1837-67Allen Lane, 1974 - 360 pages |
Contents
Contemporary Ideologies | 3 |
My wife is a woman of mind Caricature by George Cruik | 11 |
The Legal Position | 16 |
As it ought to be or The Ladies trying a Contemptible | 18 |
The Happy Family A Quiet Hint to the Wives of Eng | 35 |
The Myth in the Novel | 53 |
The Parliamentary Female From the Punch Book | 57 |
16 | 78 |
Charles Dickenss AntiWoman | 143 |
Revolt and Duty in the Brontës | 152 |
A More Realistic Portrayal by Elizabeth Gaskell | 175 |
The Great Social Evil | 195 |
The Great Social Evil from Punch 1857 | 196 |
The gilded night house of Kate Hamilton from Mayhew | 206 |
Dickenss Sinners | 210 |
Martha Illustration by Phiz from David Copperfield | 226 |
From the Womans Sphere to the Practice of a Profession | 103 |
VIRGO Unmatched enjoyment Caricature by George | 104 |
The Scholastic Hen and Her Chickens Caricature | 110 |
How to Get Rid of an Old Woman Caricature by George | 117 |
Workshop Mine and Factory | 123 |
The Haunted Lady or The Ghost in the Lookingglass | 126 |
The CosterGirl from Mayhew London Labour and | 133 |
View of a Dust Yard from Mayhew London Labour and | 139 |
Vanity Fair The Siren and the Ladder | 229 |
Seduction in Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot | 243 |
Conclusion | 269 |
Notes | 275 |
Bibliography | 285 |
Literary Sources | 322 |
General Sources | 334 |
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