Women of character and endurance

From: The Spectator | Date: August 15, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Women of character and endurance

Jane Gardam

THE GENTLEMAN'S DAUGHTER: WOMEN'S LIVES IN GEORGIAN ENGLAND

by Amanda Vickery

Yale University Press, L 19.95, pp. 436

A part from one fascinating observation that women in Georgian England cared more for their fathers' good opinion than for their husbands' and brothers', this brilliant book, which scholars are already saying is `humblingly, amazingly good,' seems to have strayed from its title. 'I am a gentleman's daughter,' Elizabeth Bennet famously informed Lady Catherine de Burgh. `But who was your mother?' the creature famously replied. ...

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