Relative Creatures: Victorian Women in Society and the Novel, 1837-67

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Allen 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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