# Family, Love, and Work in the Lives of Victorian Gentlewomen, Vol. 1

By **M Jeanne Peterson**

- ISBN-13: 9780253205094
- Publisher: Indiana University Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 242
- Published: 22 May 1989

## About this book

Physically frail, badly educated girls, brought up to lead useless lives as idle gentlewomen, married to dominant husbands, and relegated to 'separate spheres' of life - these phrases have often been used to describe Victorian upper-middle-class women. This book examines the scope and quality of gentlewomen's education

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