Victorian Lady Cycles The World
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Victorian Lady Cycles The World
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Author : Isabel G Homewood
language : en
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Release Date : 2018-11-09
Victorian Lady Cycles The World written by Isabel G Homewood and has been published by eBook Partnership this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-09 with Travel categories.
Isabel Homewood (nee Fooks) avidly took to cyclin in 1894, after she was widowed. She travelled very widely aroundAA*Europe and the Middle East, through the Antipodes and across America. Following an early Victorian childhood, she experienced crossing the Panama Isthmus before the Canal was completed, pioneering farming in New Zealand, travel by steamer and sailing ships and the First World War. The latter curtailed her ambition to cycle round the world when she had only reached Australia, so she returned to England and trained as a midwife. As she was asked by various bodies to comment on what she thought of certain situations, such as relations between the Armenians and the Turks, she decided to include her personal views on the people she met and their culture in he journals. These contemporary accounts form the basis for this book.
Victorian Lady Cycles The World
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Author : ISABEL G. HOMEWOOD
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Victorian Lady Cycles The World written by ISABEL G. HOMEWOOD and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Victorian Lady Cycles The World
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Author : ISABEL G. HOMEWOOD
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Victorian Lady Cycles The World written by ISABEL G. HOMEWOOD and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Life As A Victorian Lady
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Author : Pamela Horn
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2011-09-16
Life As A Victorian Lady written by Pamela Horn and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-16 with History categories.
As a Victorian lady, what unspoken rules governed what you wore, how you spoke, and how you filled your time? This fascinating book takes you back in time to show you just how your day would be, and how it differed from lower class life.
The Victorian Lady
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Author : Alan Maley
language : en
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Release Date : 1998
The Victorian Lady written by Alan Maley and has been published by Harvest House Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
Bikes And Bloomers
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Author : Kat Jungnickel
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2020-02-25
Bikes And Bloomers written by Kat Jungnickel and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-25 with Technology & Engineering categories.
An illustrated history of the evolution of British women's cycle wear. The bicycle in Victorian Britain is often celebrated as a vehicle of women's liberation. Less noted is another critical technology with which women forged new and mobile public lives—cycle wear. This illustrated account of women's cycle wear from Goldsmiths Press brings together Victorian engineering and radical feminist invention to supply a missing chapter in the history of feminism. Despite its benefits, cycling was a material and ideological minefield for women. Conventional fashions were unworkable, with skirts catching in wheels and tangling in pedals. Yet wearing “rational” cycle wear could provoke verbal and sometimes physical abuse from those threatened by newly mobile women. Seeking a solution, pioneering women not only imagined, made, and wore radical new forms of cycle wear but also patented their inventive designs. The most remarkable of these were convertible costumes that enabled wearers to transform ordinary clothing into cycle wear. Drawing on in-depth archival research and inventive practice, Kat Jungnickel brings to life in rich detail the little-known stories of six inventors of the 1890s. Alice Bygrave, a dressmaker of Brixton, registered four patents for a skirt with a dual pulley system built into its seams. Julia Gill, a court dressmaker of Haverstock Hill, patented a skirt that drew material up the waist using a mechanism of rings or eyelets. Mary and Sarah Pease, sisters from York, patented a skirt that could be quickly converted into a fashionable high-collar cape. Henrietta Müller, a women's rights activist of Maidenhead, patented a three-part cycling suit with a concealed system of loops and buttons to elevate the skirt. And Mary Ann Ward, a gentlewoman of Bristol, patented the “Hyde Park Safety Skirt,” which gathered fabric at intervals using a series of side buttons on the skirt. Their unique contributions to cycling's past continue to shape urban life for contemporary mobile women.
Introduction To A Victorian Woman S World
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language : en
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Presents articles and information about the customs and concerns of a woman in the Victoria era. Notes that the articles were originally published in 19th century periodicals such as "The Gentlewoman" and "Godey's Lady's Book." Contains details about fashion, the household arts, readings of feminine interest, family and career, holidays and amusements, weddings, and decorative arts. Links to other Victoriana-related sites.
This Victorian Life
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Author : Sarah A. Chrisman
language : en
Publisher: Skyhorse
Release Date : 2015-11-03
This Victorian Life written by Sarah A. Chrisman and has been published by Skyhorse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Part memoir, part micro-history, this is an exploration of the present through the lens of the past. We all know that the best way to study a foreign language is to go to a country where it's spoken, but can the same immersion method be applied to history? How do interactions with antique objects influence perceptions of the modern world? From Victorian beauty regimes to nineteenth-century bicycles, custard recipes to taxidermy experiments, oil lamps to an ice box, Sarah and Gabriel Chrisman decided to explore nineteenth-century culture and technologies from the inside out. Even the deepest aspects of their lives became affected, and the more immersed they became in the late Victorian era, the more aware they grew of its legacies permeating the twenty-first century. Most of us have dreamed of time travel, but what if that dream could come true? Certain universal constants remain steady for all people regardless of time or place. No matter where, when, or who we are, humans share similar passions and fears, joys and triumphs. In her first book, Victorian Secrets, Chrisman recalled the first year she spent wearing a Victorian corset 24/7. In This Victorian Life, Chrisman picks up where Secrets left off and documents her complete shift into living as though she were in the nineteenth century.
Revealing New Worlds
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Author : Suzanne Le-May Sheffield
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-05
Revealing New Worlds written by Suzanne Le-May Sheffield and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The story of nineteenth-century science often tells a tale of a masculinized professionalizing domain. Scientific man increasingly pushed women out, marginalized them and constructed them as naturally feminine creatures incapable of intellectual work, particularly scientific work. Yet many women participated in various scientific endeavours throughout the century. This work asks why, when the waters were so inviting, did women dive deeply into the swirling maelstrom of scientific practice, scientific controversies and scientific writing? Victorian women certainly recognised that male naturalists were not always willing to welcome them warmly into their inner sanctum of scientific work honour and prestige. Moreover, they recognised the existence of a more general social stigma that thwarted any woman's participation in intellectual endeavours. However, their fascination with algology, botany and entomology led Margaret Gatty, Marianne North and Eleanor Ormerod to reach beyond acceptable gendered roles, to undertake field work, to paint, write, popularize, experiment and discover. Each exhibited a passion for their chosen field, a need for intellectual, artistic and scientific work, and a desire for scientific recognition and renown. This book examines the ability of women to understand themselves and respond to their needs as complex human beings. Within a framework of socially and scientifically constructed norms, these Victorial women use d science as a path to self-awareness and intellectual accomplishment.
Sex And Sexuality In Victorian Britain
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Author : Violet Fenn
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Release Date : 2020-05-30
Sex And Sexuality In Victorian Britain written by Violet Fenn and has been published by Pen and Sword History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-30 with History categories.
Peek beneath the bedsheets of nineteenth-century Britain in this affectionate, informative and fascinating look at sex and sexuality during the reign of Queen Victoria. It examines the prevailing attitudes towards male and female sexual behavior, and the ways in which these attitudes were often determined by those in positions of power and authority. It also explores our ancestors’ ingenious, surprising, bizarre and often entertaining solutions to the challenges associated with maintaining a healthy sex life. Did the people in Victorian times live up to their stereotypes when it came to sexual behavior? This book will answer this question, as well as looking at fashion, food, science, art, medicine, magic, literature, love, politics, faith and superstition through a new lens, leaving the reader uplifted and with a new regard for the ingenuity and character of our great-great-grandparents.