Product Description: Elizabeth Gaskell's work and life are being rediscovered against a backdrop of Victorian middle-class women's experience by many feminist scholars. Viewed in this century as conventional and conservative, Gaskell may instead be regarded as a radical for her time, because she challenged widely-held assumptions about the nature of women, their proper sphere, and their participation in the public realm...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: `Unequal Opportunities is essential reading for historians of women's work and specialists in British and European social and labour history.' Susan D. Pennybacker, Trinity College at Hartford `This is a strong and extremely useful collection, which presents a marvellous opportunity for future works of synthesis...read more