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Genteel Women: Empire and Domestic Material Culture, 1840-1910

Genteel Women: Empire and Domestic Material Culture, 1840-1910

Lawrence, Dianne

Paperback

Series: Studies in Imperialism, Book 96

General World HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 0719097363
ISBN13: 9780719097362
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: May 1 2015
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

During the latter half of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth, colonial expansion prompted increasing numbers of genteel women to establish their family homes in far-flung corners of the world. This work explores ways in which the women's values, as expressed through their personal and household possessions, specifically their dress, living rooms, gardens and food, were instrumental in constructing various forms of genteel society in alien settings.

In this title, newly available in paperback, Lawrence examines the transfer and adaptation of British female gentility in various locations across the British Empire, including Africa, New Zealand and India. In so doing, she offers a revised reading of the behaviour, motivations and practices of female elites, thereby calling into doubt the oft-stated notion that such women were a constraining element in new societies.

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