Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women The Hard Way Up /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boos, Florence s. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:XIV, 343 p. 20 illus.
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
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.