Elizabeth Longford
Womanly Behaviour
Girls Growing Up in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
By Carol Dyhouse
Routledge&KeganPaul 224pp £8.95 order from our bookshop
There may be a recession but not in the women business. Our shelves are overflowing with encyclopedias devoted entirely to women, while women’s conditions are chronicled in every century down to our own. Indeed I must declare a modest family interest. Ms Fraser is working on ‘Seventeenth Century Woman’, Ms Billington has published A Woman’s Age, and I am in the midst of reading The Company of Women. With all this going for them, women must surely be well on the way to finding that holy grail of the twentieth century – their identity. If however they have still some distance to travel, this impressive short guide to forty years of girls’ history (1870-1910) will help them forward.
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