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The author shows how the nineteenth century's 'cult of domesticity' had invested the home with great importance - as the centre of republican virtue, as the source of religious values and as an area of heady female responsiblities. But this emphasis meant that women were relegat…
Examines the role of housewife and the esteem attached to the position both in the nineteenth century and in the twentieth.