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Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each other, exchanged rings and vows, willed each... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Alice: Add a description of this character.
- George
- Kate Field
- Trollope
- Charlotte Cushman
- John Grey
- Marian
- Dora
- Caroline
- David Copperfield
- Dorothea
- Lucy
- Romney
- Ginevra
- Rosamond
- Rosa Bonheur
- Simcox
- Shirley
- Warren
- Mrs. Pryor
- Miss Havisham
- Glencora
- Aurora
- Cobbe
- Ethel
- Robert
- Hays
- Agnes
- Edith
- Emma Stebbins
- Pip
- Eliot
- Magwitch
- Mary Lloyd
- John Stuart Mill
- Lecky
- Olivia
- Palliser
- Greg
- Trabb
- Madame Neroni
Setting & Locations edit
- Estella
- Victorian England
- Englishwoman
- London
- United States
- Maine
- Italy
- Satis House
- Bathsheba
- Paris
- Rome
- Middlemarch
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IN THE MOST INFLUENTIAL conduct book of the nineteenth century, Sarah Stickney Ellis identified The Women of England (1839) as daughters, wives, and mothers ensconced in a familial, domestic sphere.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Sharon Marcus (Author)
Awards edit
- Lambda Literary Award (2007: LGBT Studies)
- Lambda Literary Award (Finalist, 2007: LGBT Nonfiction)
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- Dewey: 306.848094209034
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