From: Dr.Lori Williamson <llwilliamson@brookes.ac.uk>
I will be teaching a first-year module on Victorian women next term and I'm
looking for a text that would be appropriate for first-year students.
The module looks only at England and covers the period c. 1830-1901, although
these are not hard and fast dates. Topics I plan to cover include education,
employment, the rise of the "domestic angel", marriage, single women - typical
themes for a first-year course.
Barbara Caine's Victorian Feminists was the text used last year; the students,
however, wanted something with more working-class content. I've been thinking
of Phillippa Levine's Victorian Feminism, Catherine Hall's White, Male and
Middle Class, Joan Perkin's Victorian Women. Lucy Bland's new book sounds
interesting, but the focus is really on sexuality and feminism in the period
1885-1914.
Does anybody have any suggestions?
Many thanks in advance.
Lori Williamson
Oxford Brookes University
llwilliamson@brookes.ac.uk
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