accomplished Diana and Mary as governesses will not do justice to their considerable talents or ambitions: Diana and Mary were soon to leave Moor House, and return to the far different life and scene which awaited them, as governesses ...
... from the secret chambers of the earth the elements of the riches and greatness of this country. When I see all this I have before me a mass of produce and of wealth which I am no more able to comprehend than I am that £2,000,000,000 ...
Mayo believed that men and women were emotionally different and the mother alone was responsible for child rearing. ... Foucault, M. (1976) The History of Sexuality, Vol. ... Macdonald, C. (2006) Women Writing Home, 1700–1920.
Secord, J. (2000) Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of ... Zimmermann, V. (2008) Excavating Victorians, Albany: State University of New York Press.
... Victorian era more accurately, to identify its limits precisely, or jettison the periodisation entirely. In other words, just as the Victorians commonly saw themselves living in a distinctive world, shaped by dynamic times and places ...