The Enemy Within: the Housekeeper in Victorian Fiction
The introduction in the 1851 census of the new category of ‘housewife’ as distinct from the paid post of ‘housekeeper’, suggests that the Victorian cult of domesticity had created its own gendered ethical economy. This paper explores some of the ways in which the figure of the housekeeper in Victori...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2005-12-01
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| Series: | Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/cve/14179 |
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