Working Class Girls in Nineteenth Century England

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Working Class Girls in Nineteenth Century England

Author	: M. Gomersall
File Size	: 52,5 Mb
Publisher	: Springer
Language	: English
Release Date	: 24 February 1997
ISBN	: 9780230375376
Pages	: 187 pages

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Working Class Girls in Nineteenth Century England by M. Gomersall Book PDF Summary

This book is concerned with the nineteenth-century education, family life and employment of working-class girls and women. Based on extensive local research, it also draws on evidence from social, labour and women's history in a wide-ranging analysis of the purposes and practices of girls' education within a variety of forms of schooling, both public and private.

Working Class Girls in Nineteenth Century England by M. Gomersall

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