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Language: en
Pages: 321
Pages: 321
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-05-01 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
A study of the social history and cultural significance of the sisterhoods that sprang up in Victorian Britain, examining the lives of women who pushed the boun
Language: en
Pages: 321
Pages: 321
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-01-01 - Publisher: A&C Black
This book is the first real study of the social history and cultural significance of the sisterhoods which sprang up in Victorian Britain. It looks at those wom
Language: en
Pages: 348
Pages: 348
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
Ellen Ross has collected impressions from some of the half a million women involved in philanthropy by the 1890s, most of them active in the London slums. The c
Language: en
Pages: 244
Pages: 244
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-24 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
In the nineteenth century, more than a third of American hospitals were established and run by women with religious vocations. In Say Little, Do Much, Sioban Ne
Language: en
Pages: 318
Pages: 318
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-06-10 - Publisher: Routledge
This volume is the first comprehensive overview of women, gender and religious change in modern Britain spanning from the evangelical revival of the early 1800s