Genteel Poverty and Female Emigration, 1830-1914
by
A. James Hammerton
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
First published in 1979. This book examines the distressed gentlewoman stereotype, primarily through a study of the experience of emigration among single middle-class women between 1830 and 1914. Based largely on a study of government and philanthropic emigration projects, it argues that the image...