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Constructing girlhood through the periodical press, 1850-1915 by Moruzi, Kristine

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Organized patriotism and the crucible of war popular imperialism in Britain, 1914-1932 / by Hendley, Matthew, 1966-

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Crafting the woman professional in the long nineteenth century artistry and industry in Britain /

Table of Contents: “…: women drawing on wood and the careers of Florence and Adelaide Claxton / Catherine Flood -- The China painter : amateur celebrities and professional status at Howell and James "Royal Academy of China painting" / Anne Anderson -- Creative industry : design, art education and the woman professional / Patricia Zakreski -- Dorothy's career and other cautionary tales / Pamela Gerrish Nunn -- The craft of self-fashioning -- Negotiating fame : mid-Victorian women writers and the romantic myth of the gentlemanly reviewer / Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi -- Towards an iconography of ouida as a woman artist / Andrew King -- "Mady's tightrope walk" : the career of Marian Huxley Collier / Valerie Sanders -- Living art : Michael Field, aestheticism and dress / Ana Parejo Vadillo.…”
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Alas Poor Ghost / by Bennett, Gillian

Subjects: “…Women Great Britain Folklore. 140975…”
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Alas Poor Ghost / by Bennett, Gillian

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Greatness Engendered : George Eliot and Virginia Woolf / by Booth, Alison

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Greatness Engendered : George Eliot and Virginia Woolf / by Booth, Alison

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Reading for the law British literary history and gender advocacy / by Krueger, Christine L.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Theory, advocacy, and history -- Historiographies of witchcraft for feminist advocacy : historical justice in Elizabeth Gaskell's Lois the witch -- Witchcraft precedents as literary history : from The discoverie of witchcraft to Sir Matthew Hale -- The historical turn in witchcraft literature : from Enlightenment historiography to historical realism -- Theories and histories of agency : Mary Wollstonecraft's narrative of the reasonable woman -- Agency, equity, publicity : compos mentis in Charles Reade's Hard cash and lunacy commission reports -- Gendered credibility : testimony in fiction and indecent assault -- Women's legal literacy and pro se representation : from Griffith Gaunt to Georgina Weldon -- Concealing women's mens rea: advocacy for female prisoners and infanticidal mothers -- The secret agency of juries : forging resistance against sodomy prosecution.…”
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Margaret Thatcher a portrait of the Iron Lady / by Blundell, John, 1952-

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Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer / by Kanwit, John Paul M., 1972-

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Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer / by Kanwit, John Paul M., 1972-

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Faithful Translators : Authorship, Gender, and Religion in Early Modern England / by Goodrich, Jaime, 1978-

Subjects: “…Women translators. fast (OCoLC)fst01178638 146258…”
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Faithful Translators : Authorship, Gender, and Religion in Early Modern England / by Goodrich, Jaime, 1978-

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Their fathers' daughters Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth, and patriarchal complicity / by Kowaleski-Wallace, Elizabeth, 1954-

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Gender and history in medieval English romance and chronicle by Barefield, Laura D.

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Rival queens actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater / by Nussbaum, Felicity

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: at stage's edge -- The economics of celebrity -- Real, beautiful women: rival queens -- Actresses' memoirs: exceptional virtue -- Actresses and patrons: the theatrical contract -- The actress and performative property: Catherine Clive -- The actress, travesty, and nation: Margaret Woffington -- The actress and material femininity: Frances Abington -- Epilogue: contracted virtue.…”
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Daily modernism the literary diaries of Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Elizabeth Smart, and Anaïs Nin / by Podnieks, Elizabeth

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Becoming a trainer in adult abuse work a practical guide / by Pritchard, Jacki

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Professions and patriarchy by Witz, Anne, 1952-2006

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Our coquettes capacious desire in the eighteenth century / by Braunschneider, Theresa, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…A prelude: the novelty of coquetry -- The people that things make: coquettes and consumer culture -- The coquette here and there: a cartography of coquetry -- Women who choose too much: reforming the coquette -- A postlude: the coquette's demise.…”
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