public culture in the nineteenth century
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Morgan, Simon
- Publish Year
- 2020
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 1D 2020
- Thesaurus
- middenklasse, liefdadigheid, vrouwbeelden, vrouwenkiesrecht, Victoriaanse tijd, Verenigd Koninkrijk
- Description
- While the image of bourgeois Victorian women as 'angels in the house' isolated from the world in private domesticity has long been dismissed as an unrealistic ideal, women have remained marginalized in many recent accounts of the public culture of the middle class. This book redresses the balance and argues that women played an important role in the formation of the public identity of the Victorian middle class. Through their support for cultural and philanthropic associations and their engagement in political campaigns, women developed a civic identity, which for some informed their later demands for political rights.