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Eminent Victorian Women
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Author
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Elizabeth Longford. Judith Kazantzis, foreword.
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Publisher
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History Press
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Format
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paperback
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Product Dimensions
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7.75
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5
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0.75
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ISBN
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9780750948876
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Pages/Publication Date
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237/2008
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Daedalus Item Code
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11615
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Description
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In this group portrait, Elizabeth Longford presents a group of Victorian women who challenged the repressive rules of established society in their actions or writing, including Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontė, whose cloistered lives were illuminated by the vividness of their creative genius, and Josephine Butler, who brought about the end of the infamous Contagious Diseases Acts. Here too are Annie Besant, who campaigned vigorously for the rights of women subject to unreasonable husbands or harsh employers; Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose novel Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the cruelties of slavery to the world's attention; and James Barry, born Margaret Bulkley, a medical reformer and arguably the first British female to qualify as a surgeon.
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