Wives and mothers -- Contemporary ideologies ; Legal position ; Daily life : Aristocratic and middle-class women, the working classes ; Myth in the novel ; Countervailing criticism -- Single and working women -- From the woman's sphere to the practice of a profession ; Workshop, mine and factory ; Charles Dickens's anti-woman ; Revolt and duty in the Brontes ; More realistic portrayal by Elizabeth Gaskell, Trollope and Disraeli -- Fallen women -- Great social evil ; Dickens's sinners ; Vanity fair-- the siren and the ladder ; Seduction in Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot.
Note
Issued in French under title: Les femmes victoriennes.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 322-344) and index.
