This study shows how she sought to reconcile her attachment to the Victorian past with her recognition of a new society that undermined established order and in doing so gave more opportunities to women, confused class-boundaries, extended tolerance, allowed the cult of pleasure and self-assertion and revealed the ambiguities of respectability.
| ISBN: | 9780230590786 |
| Publication date: | 31st July 2007 |
| Author: | York, R.A. |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Ebook (PDF) |