The condition of women, women’s writing and the empire in nineteenth-century Britain

At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 101-121

  Rendall, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511802263.005     Document Type: Chapter

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