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- being very polite, gentle, or graceful: a genteel southern lady
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Sep 13, 2014 · Britain’s material culture has increasingly preoccupied historians in the last decade, particularly when it comes to exploring the upper- and upper-middle-class worlds of female gentility.
- Zoé Laidlaw
- 2014
Dec 2, 2015 · In Genteel Women Dianne Lawrence argues for a new direction in the study of European women in empire and proposes that ‘gentility’, as a much more flexible and dynamic concept than reductionist cat...
- Grainne Goodwin
- 2015
Chapter 1: Introduction. Chapter 2: ‘Dress indicates mind’. Chapter 3: ‘The arrangement requires much taste and judgement’. Chapter 4: ‘No-one can over-estimate the pleasure of tending fl owers’. Chapter 5: ‘The guests being seated at the dinner table, the lady serves the soup’. Chapter 6: Conclusion. Select bibliography. Index.
- Dianne Lawrence
- February 01, 2017
Review: Genteel Women: Empire and Domestic Material Culture, 1840 - 1910 Dianne Lawrence . Manchester; New York: Manchester UP, 2012.
May 16, 2016 · Genteel Women argues that middling class European white ... The Manchester University Press has recently released the above title, from its renowned ‘Studies in Imperialism’ series, in paperback form.
- Danielle C. Kinsey
- 2016
Jul 22, 2016 · Integrating primary sources and surviving material culture, this article explores genteel articulations of the spontaneous and extravagant purchases of luxury goods by the lower orders, and their response: an engagement with notions of tasteful dress and genteel economy.
Dec 24, 2012 · Abstract This article examines the experience of an 1820 settler woman, Sophia Pigot, who immigrated with her family to the eastern Cape as part of the 1819 government-sponsored scheme. Existing … Expand
