Eighteenth-Century Women: An Anthology

Jean E. Hunter, Bridget Hill

The American Historical Review · 1985 · 61 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

Introduction 1. Ideas of Female Perfection 2. And the Greatest of These was Chastity 3. Female Education 4. Approaching Marriage 5. Marriage and After 6. Women's Legal Position: Marriage Law and Custom 7. Women without Husbands 8. Crime and Punishment 9. The Female Poor 10. Women and Agriculture 11. Women in Industry and Other Occupations 12. Female Domestic Servants 13. Women Protest