Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women The Hard Way Up /
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| Summary: | XIV, 343 p. 20 illus. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2017.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017. |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in Life Writing,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64215-4 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction: The Hard Way Up
- 2 Uneven Access: Working-Class Women and the Education Acts
- 3 Under Physical Siege: The Early Victorian Autobiographies of Elizabeth Stories and Mary Prince
- 4 Memoir and People’s History in Janet Hamilton’s Sketches of Village Life
- 5 The Annals of the Poor--Rural and Conversion Narratives: Elizabeth Campbell, Christian Watt, Elizabeth Oakley, Mrs. Collier, Jane Andrew, and Barbara Farquhar
- 6 The Servant Writes Back: Mary Ann Ashford’s Life of a Licensed Victualler’s Daughter
- 7 Ellen Johnston: Autobiographical Writings of “The Factory Girl”
- 8 From Servant to Schoolmistress: Janet Bathgate and Mary Smith
- 9 Truth,’ ‘Fiction’ and Collaboration in The Autobiography of a Charwoman
- 10 Concluding Remarks.