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Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women The Hard Way Up

:	Florence s. Boos
:	Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women The Hard Way Up
:	Palgrave Macmillan
:	9783319642154
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:	CHF 76.30
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:	Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
:	English

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This volume is the first to identify a significant body of life narratives by working-class women and to demonstrate their inherent literary significance. Placing each memoir within its generic, historical, and biographical context, this book traces the shifts in such writings over time, examines the circumstances which enabled working-class women authors to publish their life stories, and places these memoirs within a wider autobiographical tradition. Additionally,Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women enables readers to appreciate the clear-sightedness, directness, and poignancy of these works.

Florence S. Boos is Professor at the University of Iowa. She is the editor ofWorking-Class Women Poets of Victorian Britain: An Anthology(2008)and many articles and two special issues devoted to Victorian working-class writings. She is also the general editor of the William Morris Archive and the author/editor of several books on William Morris.

	Acknowledgements	8
	Contents	10
	List of Figures	12
	Chapter 1 Introduction: Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women	14
	Narrative Trajectory	19
	Editorial Mediation and Working-Class Readers	21
	Broader Patterns	24
	Maternity, Sexuality, and Politics	26
	Violence and Family Conflict	29
	Religious Ties that Did Not Always Bind	33
	Genre and Class	34
	Authenticity	38
	Transience and Dislocation	40
	Sequence of Chapters	41
	Chapter 2 Uneven Access: Working-Class Women and the Education Acts	45
	The “Voluntary” Schools	47
	The Education Acts of 1870, 1880, and Later	51
	Before the “Acts”	54
	After the “Acts”	62
	Conclusion	71
	Chapter 3 Under Physical Siege: The Early Victorian Autobiographies of Elizabeth Storie and Mary Prince	74
	Elizabeth Storie	76
	Mary Prince	83
	Conclusion	93
	Chapter 4 Memoir and People’s History in Janet Hamilton’s Sketches of Village Life	96
	Janet Hamilton’s Life	97
	Hamilton’s Early Publications	104
	Hamilton’s Book Publications	109
	Hamilton’s Essays on Education and Alcoholism	110
	“Sketches of Village Life and Character”	117
	Conclusion	125
	Chapter 5 The Annals of the Poor—Rural and Conversion Narratives: Elizabeth Campbell, Christian Watt, Elizabeth Oakley, Mrs. Collier, Jane Andrew, and Barbara Farquhar	126
	Elizabeth Duncan Campbell (1804–1878)	128
	Christian Watt (1833–1923)	139
	Elizabeth Green Oakley (1831–1900)	155
	Religious Narratives: Mrs. Collier, Jane Andrew, and Barbara Farquhar (“a Labourer’s Daughter”)	163
	Mrs. Collier: A Bible-Woman’s Story	164
	The Autobiography of Jane Andrew	167
	A Blockbuster Hit: Barbara Farquhar’s The Pearl of Days	173
	Chapter 6 The Servant Writes Back: Mary Ann Ashford’s Life of a Licensed Victualler’s Daughter	180
	Mary Ann Ashford (1787 to After 1861)	182
	The Autobiography of Rose Allen	193
	The Adventures of a Maid Servant	200
	Mistress and Maid	202
	Chapter 7 Ellen Johnston: Autobiographical Writings of “The Factory Girl”	208
	Ellen Johnston: The “Queen of the Far-Flung Penny Post?” (c. 1828–c. 1874)	210
	Chapter 8 From Servant to Schoolmistress: Janet Bathgate and Mary Smith	234
	Janet Greenfield Bathgate (1804?–98)	235
	Aunt Janet’s Legacy	239
	The Life of Aunt Janet	244
	Mary Smith (1822–89)	251
	Chapter 9 ‘Truth’, ‘Fiction’ and Collaboration in The Autobiography of a Charwoman	270
	The Frame Narrative: Annie Wakeman	275
	The Autobiography: Elizabeth Dobbs’s Story	278
	A Likely Original: Enter Martha Grimes	291
	Why These Changes, and Who Was Responsible?	297
	Chapter 10 Conclusion	302
	Alternatives to Middle-Class Accounts	305
	Coda: An Edwardian Turn	310
	Bibliography	322
	Index	332