Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant's Books

Looks at the anxieties of the Victorian middle classes who feared a breakdown of the social order as divorce became more readily available and promiscuity threatened the sanctity of the family, [and wherein] the simple act of hiring a governess raises the spectres of murder, disguise, and adultery"--Provided by publisher.

The 'bonds of matrimony' describes with cruel precision the social and political status of married women in the nineteenth century. Women of all classes had only the most limited rights of possession in their own bodies and property yet, as this remarkable book shows, women of all classes found room to manoeuvre within the narrow limits imposed on them. Upper-class women frequently circumvented the onerous limitations of the law, while middle-class women sought through reform to change their legal status. For working-class women, such legal changes were irrelevant, but they too found ways to ameliorate their position. Joan Perkin demonstrates clearly in this outstanding book, full of human insights, that women were not content to remain inferior or subservient to men.

This volume is a clearly worded and accessible introduction to the subject of Victorian literature.

This edition of Gateway to the West has been excerpted from the original numbers, consolidated, and reprinted in two volumes, with added Publisher's Note, Tables of Contents, and indexes, by Genealogical Publishing Co., SInc., Baltimore, MD.

Reproduction of the original.

Book's by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

East Lynne

East Lynne

Women and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century England

Women and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century England

Outlines of Victorian Literature

Outlines of Victorian Literature

Gateway to the West

Gateway to the West

The Greatest Heiress in England

The Greatest Heiress in England

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