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Title: The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England by Amanda Vickery ISBN: 0-300-08002-6 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Academic but interesting and enlightening
Comment: This book reminds me of reading someone's doctoral dissertation--but that isn't meant to be an insult, just a comment on the writing style (academic). We are introduced to real women and their real situations by way of their letters and diaries. It is full of very interesting stories of a few related women in 18th century England. My only wish would be that the book could have been written to include women from other areas in England--really just more women in general. I appreciate the author's work in this under-researched area and hope it inspires more research in the future.
I have long wished that I could have lived in Jane Austen's world (with epidurals). But after reading this I realize that I would rather keep my appliances and modern medicine and my legal rights. I appreciated this book because it broke me of my misconceptions about any kind of "romantic" life of the women of this "almost leisure" class, as another reviewer called it. They were at the mercy of their husbands, their social situation and fate. Very thought provoking for a Jane Austen fan like myself.
Rating: 4
Summary: The lives of Country English Women in the 18th Century
Comment: I'm not sure whether to give this book 3 or 4 stars. The author presents a very academic overview of the life of rural Georgian women in England in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
A lot of original research has been done for this book and it shows in it's content. The author highlights the lack of real research that has been done on the lives of women in this period. However, despite a well timed re-assesment of the lives of these women, this is essentially an academic work.
It highlights the fact that things have never been as bad as many other (feminist) books make out - in essence Jane Austin shows us close to the real world as people lived it in her novels.
This book is dry to read, but full of many every day facts for those interested in the "real" lives of 18th century country women.
Rating: 3
Summary: The Gentleman's Daughter Is Not Quite Up The Mark
Comment: Although "The Gentleman's Daughter" explored an interesting time in the life of women it was too general for me to feel completely absorbed in the book. I felt that I was looking at an interesting painting from across the room and I couldn't get close enough to really know the subject. In no way does the book compare to "The Aristocrats" which pulls you into the life of it's subjects. Overall it was a disappointment although I did learn a little more in general of life for women in the Georgian era.
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Title: English Society in the Eighteenth Century (Penguin Social History of Britain) by Roy Porter ISBN: 0140138196 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Regency Etiquette: The Mirror of Graces, 1811 by Lady of Distinction ISBN: 0914046241 Publisher: R. L. Shep Publications Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England by Venetia Murray ISBN: 0140282963 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 28 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England by Daniel Pool ISBN: 0671882368 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: April, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Aristocrats : Sarah, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832 by Stella Tillyard ISBN: 0374524475 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 30 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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