The promise of the suburbs : a Victorian history in literature and culture / Sarah Bilston.

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Bilston, Sarah [Author]

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computer

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online resource

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9780300186369

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HT352 .P766 2019

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Subject: A study of the fast-growing Victorian suburbs as places of connection, creativity, and professional advance, especially for women. From the earliest decades of the nineteenth century, the suburbs were maligned by the aristocratic elite as dull zones of low cultural ambition and vulgarity, as well as generally female spaces isolated from the consequential male world of commerce. Sarah Bilston argues that these attitudes were forged to undermine the cultural authority of the emerging middle class and to reinforce patriarchy by trivializing women's work. Resisting these stereotypes, Bilston reveals how suburban life offered ambitious women, especially women writers, access to supportive communities and opportunities for literary and artistic experimentation as well as professional advancement. From more familiar figures such as the sensation author Mary Elizabeth Braddon to interior design journalist Jane Ellen Panton and garden writer Jane Loudon, this work presents a more complicated portrait of how women and English society at large navigated a fast-growing, rapidly changing landscape.

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A study of the fast-growing Victorian suburbs as places of connection, creativity, and professional advance, especially for women. From the earliest decades of the nineteenth century, the suburbs were maligned by the aristocratic elite as dull zones of low cultural ambition and vulgarity, as well as generally female spaces isolated from the consequential male world of commerce. Sarah Bilston argues that these attitudes were forged to undermine the cultural authority of the emerging middle class and to reinforce patriarchy by trivializing women's work. Resisting these stereotypes, Bilston reveals how suburban life offered ambitious women, especially women writers, access to supportive communities and opportunities for literary and artistic experimentation as well as professional advancement. From more familiar figures such as the sensation author Mary Elizabeth Braddon to interior design journalist Jane Ellen Panton and garden writer Jane Loudon, this work presents a more complicated portrait of how women and English society at large navigated a fast-growing, rapidly changing landscape.

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The "Horror" of Suburbia; 1 John Claudius Loudon and the New Suburban Landscape; 2 Setting Suburban Stereotypes: 1820s-1850s; 3 Plotting the Suburbs: Popular Fiction and Common Knowledge, 1850s-1870s; 4 "Art at Home": Women and the Suburban Interior; 5 Women and the Suburban Garden; 6 Suburban Opportunity in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Fiction; 7 "The Quintessence of the Suburban": Jane Ellen Panton and Julia Frankau Speak of Suburbia; Conclusions: Stepping off the Threshold; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E

FG; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

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