Knowing Their Place?
The Intellectual Life of Women in the 19th Century
Published on 1. September 2014
320 pages
978-0-7524-9871-3 (ISBN)
Description
Knowing their Place is a comprehensive account of the public, private and intellectual life of Irish women in the Victorian age. In particular, this book looks at the steady progress of girls and women within the education system, their gradual involvement in intellectual life through amateur societies (such as the Royal Dublin Society); their emergence of independent, highly motivated scholarly and philanthropic individuals who operated within local spheres with often very considerable degrees of success and influence.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
Illustrations
8 Plates, black and white; 25 Illustrations, black and white
File size
0,41 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7524-9871-3 (9780752498713)
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09/2014
Nonsuch Publishing
€51.00
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1. 'Starry Eyed': Women in Science in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
- 2. 'The Fun of Being Intellectual': Helen Waddell (1889-1965) and Maude Clarke (1892-1935)
- 3. Intellectual Lives and Literary Perspectives: Female Irish Writing at Home and Abroad
- 4. General Practice? Victorian Irish Women and United Kingdom Medicine
- 5. Intellectual Women: Irish Women at Cambridge, 1875-1904
- 6. A Woman's Reply: Women and Divorce Law Reform in Victorian Ireland
- 7. A Terrible Beauty? Women, Modernity and Irish Nationalism before the Easter Rising
- 8. Knowing Their Place? Girls' Perceptions of School in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
- Appendix
- Notes
- Notes on Contributors
- Copyright
