Philanthropy and Gender in Nineteenth-Century England
by
Dorice Williams Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
Was nineteenth-century British philanthropy the "truest and noblest woman’s work" and praiseworthy for having raised the nation’s moral tone, or was it a dangerous mission likely to cause the defeminization of its practitioners as they became "public persons"? In Victorian England, women’s participation...