Suffer and Be Still: Women in the Victorian Age (Midland Giant) by Martha Vicinus

Suffer and Be Still: Women in the Victorian Age (Midland Giant)

Martha Vicinus

256 pages

4 editions

nonfiction gender history sociology informative medium-paced
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The ideal woman of the Victorian era was a combination of sexual innocence, conspicuous consumption, and worship of the family hearth--with marriage and procreation being a woman's only function. Suffer and Be Still is a collection of ten lively e...

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