The invisible woman : aspects of women's work in eighteenth-century Britain /: aspects of women's work in eighteenth-century Britain. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Isabelle Baudino, Jacques Carré, Cécile Révauger.
• Other Names: Baudino, Isabelle; Carré, Jacques; Révauger, Marie-Cécile
• Contents: Introduction / I. Baudino, J. Carre and C. Revauger -- 1. The birth of a new profession : the housekeeper and her status in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Gilly Lehmann -- 2. The representation of housework in the eighteenth-century women's press / Marie-Claire Rouyer-Daney -- 3. Needlework and the rights of women in England at the end of the eighteenth century / Christine Hivet -- 4. Governesses of the royal family and the nobility in Great Britain, 1750-1815 / Sophie Loussouarn -- 5. The labour and servitude of women in the Highlands of Scotland in the eighteenth century / Marie-Helene Thevenot-Totems -- 6. Women in the army in eighteenth-century Britain / Guyonne Leduc -- 7. Hospital nurses in eighteenth-century Britain : service without responsibility / Jacques Carre -- 8. Claiming their place in the corporate community : women's identity in eighteenth-century towns / Deborah Simonton -- 9. Women barred from masonic 'work' : a British phenomenon / Cecile Revauger -- 10. The actress and eighteenth-century ideals of femininity / Severine Lancia -- 11. Women in action : Elizabeth Inchbald, heroines and serving maids in British comedies of the 1780s and 1790s / Angela J. Smallwood -- 12. Profession : siren -- the ambiguous status of professional women musicians in eighteenth-century England / Pierre Dubois -- 13. The Lee Sisters : eighteenth-century commercial heroines / Marion Marceau -- 14. Eighteenth-century images of working women / Isabelle Baudino.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (200 pages)
• Subjects: 331.4094109033; Women employees -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century; Women employees; Women -- Social conditions; Frauenarbeit; Great Britain; Großbritannien; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351887359; 1351887351
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