Category: History - British
EFFECT of environment on Women’s development. Possible reaction on men’s development—Importance of seventeenth century in historic development of English women—Influence of economic position—Division of Women’s productive powers into Domestic, Industrial, and Professional—Thre...
EFFECT of environment on Women’s development. Possible reaction on men’s development—Importance of seventeenth century in historic development of English women—Influence of econ...
2. CHAPTER IITerm includes aristocracy and _nouveau riche_. Tendency of these two classes to approximate in manners—Activity of aristocratic women with affairs of household, estate and natio...
3. CHAPTER III(A) _Farmers._ Portraits of Farmers’ Wives—Fitzherbert’s “Prologue for the Wyves Occupacyon.” Size of household—The Wife who “doth not take the pains and charge upon her.” Finan...
4. CHAPTER IV(B) _Woollen Trade._ Historical importance—Proportions of men and women employed—Early experiments in factory system abandoned—Declining employment of women in management and co...
5. CHAPTER V(A) _Crafts._ Influence of Gilds—Inclusion of women—Position of craftsman’s wife—Purposes of Gilds—The share of women in religious, social and trading privileges—Admission chief...
6. CHAPTER VI(A). _Nursing._ The sick poor nursed in lay institutions—London Hospitals—Dublin—Supplied by low class women—Women searchers for the plague—Nurses for small-pox or plague—Hired...
7. Chapter VIIRate of wages no guide to real value of goods produced—married women unlikely to work for wages when possessing capital for domestic industry—Women’s productiveness in textile i...