Gillian Sutherland: 1 book
In Search of the New Woman
Middle-Class Women and Work in Britain 1870–1914
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
The 'New Women' of late nineteenth-century Britain were seen as defying society's conventions. Studying this phenomenon from its origins in the 1870s to the outbreak of the Great War, Gillian Sutherland examines whether women really had the economic freedom to challenge norms relating to work, political...
