Griffin, Emma (Author)
The overlooked story of how ordinary women and their husbands managed financially in the Victorian era – and why so many struggled despite increasing national prosperityNineteenth century Britain saw remarkable economic growth and a rise in real wages. But not everyone shared in the nation’s wealth. Unable to earn a sufficient income themselves, working-class women were reliant on the ‘breadwinner wage’ of their husbands. When income failed, or was denied or squandered by errant men, families could be plunged into desperate poverty from which there was no escape.Emma Griffin unlocks the homes of Victorian England to examine the lives – and finances – of the people who lived there. Drawing on over 600 working-class autobiographies, including more than 200 written by women, Bread Winner changes our understanding of daily life in Victorian Britain.
...MoreReview Lindsay Middleton (2021) Review of "Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 117-118).
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Jade Shepherd;
(2016)
‘I am not very well I feel nearly mad when I think of you’: Male Jealousy, Murder and Broadmoor in Late-Victorian Britain
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Rajan, Supritha;
(2014)
Animating Household Gods: Value, Totems, and Kinship in Victorian Anthropology and Dickens's Dombey and Son
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Samantha Caslin;
(2019)
Transience, Class and Gender in Interwar Sexual Health Policy: The Case of the Liverpool VD Scheme
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Anna P. H. Geurts;
(August 2019)
Trains, bodies, landscapes. Experiencing distance in the long nineteenth century
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Andrews, Jonathan;
Digby, Anne;
(2004)
Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody: Perspectives on Gender and Class in the History of British and Irish Psychiatry
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McLaughlin-Jenkins, Erin;
(2001)
Common Knowledge: Science and the Late Victorian Working-Class Press
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Kelley, Victoria;
(2010)
Soap and Water: Cleanliness, Dirt and the Working Classes in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
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Hurren, Elizabeth T.;
(2012)
Dying for Victorian Medicine: English Anatomy and Its Trade in the Dead Poor, c. 1834--1929
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Tange, Andrea Kaston;
(2010)
Architectural Identities: Domesticity, Literature and the Victorian Middle Classes
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Siena, Kevin;
(2010)
Hospitals for the Excluded or Convalescent Homes? Workhouses, Medicalization and the Poor Law in Long Eighteenth-Century London and Pre-Confederation Toronto
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Howse, Carrie;
(2006)
From Lady Bountiful to Lady Administrator: Women and the Administration of Rural District Nursing in England, 1880--1925
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Lieffers, Caroline;
(2012)
“The Present Time is Eminently Scientific”: The Science of Cookery in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Reidy, Michael Sean;
(2000)
The flux and reflux of science: The study of the tides and the organization of early Victorian science (Great Britain, William Whewell)
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Opitz, Donald Luke;
(2004)
Aristocrats and Professionals: Country-House Science in Late-Victorian Britain
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Reinarz, Jonathan;
(2009)
Receiving the Rich, Rejecting the Poor: Towards a History of Hospital Visiting in Nineteenth-Century Provincial England
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Hawkins, Sue;
(2010)
From Maid to Matron: Nursing as a Route to Social Advancement in Nineteenth-Century England
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Elliott, Dorice Williams;
(2000)
Servants and hands: Representing the working classes in Victorian factory novels
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Rebecca J. H. Woods;
(2020)
The Shape of Meat: Preserving Animal Flesh in Victorian Britain
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Shelor, Erin J.;
(2003)
“If the Parish Screw Him, Let Him Screw the Parish”: Professionalization and Reform of the Poor Law Medical Service in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Matthew Wale;
(2022)
Making Entomologists: How Periodicals Shaped Scientific Communities in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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