Book Response
Amanda Vickery in The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England, tells stories of women’s lives within the 18th and early 19th centuries. She focused her story on women and families in Yorkshire and Lancashire, England. Women who formerly lived there left behind diaries and letters that were rich of information about marriage, child birthing, pregnancy, household management and etc. The books focus was on a particular social class which were lower gentry and professional. Each woman was the wife or daughter of doctors, clerics, attorneys, merchants, and etc. The Gentleman’s Daughters were seen as cultured, gentle, and polite homemakers. The women’s role were more private than public. They were an era of women who stayed home and kept from the outside world, unless it benefited their name and social standing.
Chapter 1 within the Gentleman’s Daughter is called Gentitly, which means authority that is established in a sophisticated manner and behavior. Georgian England women we’re the opposite of upper echelon. Vickery describes them as …show more content…
Shopping was a job that was right up the woman’s alley, men didn’t participate within this activity. Fashion and shopping to these women weren’t for keeping up with the latest trends or competing with other women, but a way to make connects to get information or either making decisions. According to Vickery, “Beyond its instrumental role, the exchange of information ‘in a fashion way’ had wider implications for feminine culture. Filling their letters with ‘fashions, flounces, and flourishes’, women shared doubts, advice, and experience. Basic to female relationships was the exchange of consumer services.” Fashion and shopping was a social session for Georgian woman, it was a way to boast, brag, interact, and make
Amanda Vickery in The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England, tells stories of women’s lives within the 18th and early 19th centuries. She focused her story on women and families in Yorkshire and Lancashire, England. Women who formerly lived there left behind diaries and letters that were rich of information about marriage, child birthing, pregnancy, household management and etc. The books focus was on a particular social class which were lower gentry and professional. Each woman was the wife or daughter of doctors, clerics, attorneys, merchants, and etc. The Gentleman’s Daughters were seen as cultured, gentle, and polite homemakers. The women’s role were more private than public. They were an era of women who stayed home and kept from the outside world, unless it benefited their name and social standing.
Chapter 1 within the Gentleman’s Daughter is called Gentitly, which means authority that is established in a sophisticated manner and behavior. Georgian England women we’re the opposite of upper echelon. Vickery describes them as …show more content…
Shopping was a job that was right up the woman’s alley, men didn’t participate within this activity. Fashion and shopping to these women weren’t for keeping up with the latest trends or competing with other women, but a way to make connects to get information or either making decisions. According to Vickery, “Beyond its instrumental role, the exchange of information ‘in a fashion way’ had wider implications for feminine culture. Filling their letters with ‘fashions, flounces, and flourishes’, women shared doubts, advice, and experience. Basic to female relationships was the exchange of consumer services.” Fashion and shopping was a social session for Georgian woman, it was a way to boast, brag, interact, and make