This book is concerned with the nineteenth-century education, family life and employment of working-class girls and women. Based on extensive local research, it also draws on evidence from social, labour and women's history in a wide-ranging analysis of the purposes and practices of girls' education within a variety of forms of schooling, both public and private.
Acknowledgements - Introduction - Patriarchy Challenged? Women and Work in Nineteenth-Century Lancashire - Women's Work in Agricultural Production: Nineteenth-Century Norfolk and Suffolk - Schooling for Social Control: the Early Nineteenth Century - Religion, Reading and Really Useful Knowledge - An Education of Principle: the Later Nineteenth Century - Schooling for Domesticity? The Later Nineteenth Century - What a Woman Knows: the Significance of Education in the Lives of Working-Class Women - From the Past to the Present - Bibliography - Index
