Emigrant Gentlewomen: Genteel Poverty and Female Emigration, 1830-1914 (Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World)

First published in 1979. This book examines the distressed gentlewoman stereotype, primarily through a study of the experience of emigration among single middle-class women between 1830 and 1914. Based largely on a study of government and philanthropic emigration projects, it argues that the image of the downtrodden resident governess does inadequate justice to Victorian middle-class women?s responses to the experience of economic and social decline and to insufficient female employment opportunities. This title will be of interest to students of history.

• | Author: A. James Hammerton
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Nov 28, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 218 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 113864210X
• | ISBN-13: 9781138642102