The angel out of the house : philanthropy and gender in nineteenth-century England / Dorice Williams Elliott.

"In The Angel out of the House Dorice Williams Elliott examines the ways in which novels and other texts that portrayed women performing charitable acts helped to make the inclusion of philanthropic work in the domestic sphere seem natural and obvious. And although many scholars have dismissed...

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Main Author: Elliott, Dorice Williams, 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, [2002]
Series:Victorian literature and culture series.
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