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Suffer and Be Still: Women in the Victorian Age (Midland Giant)
Suffer and Be Still Women in the Victorian Age - Midland Giant Author:Martha Vicinus The ideal woman of the Victorian era was a combination of sexual innocence, conspicuous consumption, and worship of the family hearth -- with marriage and procreation being a woman’s only function. Suffer and Be Still is a collection of ten lively essays which document the feminine stereotypes that Victorian women fought against, ... more »but only partially defeated.« less