Strong-minded women : and other lost voices from nineteenth-century England.

From Woman's mission / Sarah Lewis --
From Can woman regenerate society? / Ann Richelieu Lamb --
Emancipation of women / Harriet Taylor Mill --
On Harriet Taylor Mill's Views of woman / Charlotte Brontë --
"Of queens and gardens" / John Ruskin --
"Girl of the period" / Eliza Lynn Linton --
"Our offence, our defence, and our petition" / Penelope Holland --
"Old maidism!" / Ann Richelieu Lamb --
"Why are women redundant?" / William Rathbone Greg --
"How to provide for superfluous women" / Jessie Boucherett --
"Redundant women" / Mary Taylor --
Perils of the crinoline / Dorothy Nevill --
Letter on corsets / Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine --
Memory of "bloomers" / Jane Ellen Panton --
"Rational dress for women" / Florence Pomeroy --
Dangers of bicycling / Helena Swanwick --
Duties of the mistress of the house / Isabella Beeton --
Household advice to an aspiring woman writer / Elizabeth Gaskell --
Household prisoner / Florence Nightingale --
Uprooted / Frances Power Cobbe --
Duties of the sick-nurse / Isabella Beeton --
Duty to parents / Charlotte Brontë --
Duty to her mother / Harriet Martineau --
Nursing an aged grandmother / Margaret McMillan --
Duties to brothers / Sarah Stickney Ellis --
Hero-worship of a brother / George Eliot --
Sisterly sacrifice / Ellen "Nelly" Weeton --
Sisters vs. brothers / Emmeline Pankhurst --
Relations between young men and women / Ann Richelieu Lamb --
Warning against passion / Charlotte Brontë --
Letter to a young fiancée / Jane Welsh Carlyle --
Decision to marry / Annie Besant --
On her elopement / Elizabeth Barrett Browning --
Proposal and courtship / Charlotte Brontë --
Married women and the law / Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon --
"Wife torture in England" / Frances Power Cobbe --
Renunciation of the rights of husbands / John Stuart Mill --
Characteristics of husbands / Sarah Stickney Ellis --
Perfect ideal of an English wife / William Acton --
Curing "insanity" through clitoridectomy / Isaac Baker Brown --
Care of a living author/ Jane Welsh Carlyle --
Victim of the rights of husbands / Caroline Norton --
Husbandly comfort / Josephine Butler --
How to avoid conception / Richard Carlile --
On childbearing and motherhood / Victoria --
Her daughter's illness / Annie Besant --
Mother's fears / Elizabeth Gaskell --
Birth of her favorite sister / Harriet Martineau --
Decorums of friendship / Isabella Beeton --
Records of friendships / Charlotte Brontë, Ellen Nussey, Mary Taylor --
Worth of old maids / Maria Grey --
Even a lone woman can be happy / Charlotte Brontë --
Thankful for not having married / Harriet Martineau --
Productive life without a husband / Frances Power Cobbe --
Climb in the Rocky Mountains / Isabella Bird Bishop --
Housing of the poor / Maud Pember Reeves --
Diet of the poor / B. Seebohm Rowntree --
Mother's chores on wash-day / Grace Foakes --
Daughter's chores on wash-day / Mrs. Layton --
Cleaning the doorstep / Grace Foakes --
Unmarried mother's story / London Foundling Hospital Records --
Mothers' days / Maud Pember Reeves --
Marriage and motherhood / Mrs. Layton --
Toll of motherhood / Anonymous --
Purposes of ornamental education / Thomas Gisborne --
Fashionable finishing school / Frances Power Cobbe --
Lessons for ladies / M.A. Johnston --
Discouragement of a young writer / Ellen "Nelly" Weeton --
Education of woman of science / Mary Somerville --
Subdued, passive automatons / Marion Reid --
Against higher education for women / Sarah Sewell --
Mental capacity of men and women / William Landels --
Strong-mindedness / Charlotte Carmichael Stopes --
Reasons for female education / Harriet Martineau --
Womanliness, manliness, and education / Josephine Butler --
"Sex and mind in education" / Henry Maudsley --
"Sex and mind in education: a reply" / Elizabeth Garrett --
On a single standard of education for men and women / Emily Davies --
Frances Mary Buss School / Sara Burstall --
Buttonhole / M. Vivian Hughes --
Fainting fits at school / F. Cecily Steadman --
Girton pioneer / Louise Lumsden --
Memoir of Girton / Helena Swanwick --
Women at Oxford / Lillian Faithful --
School in the fens / Kate Mary Edwards --
London schooling / Grace Foakes --
"Getting on in life" / London School Board --
Two classes of women / Frances Power Cobbe --
Women as professionals / "Mrs. B." --
Lady must not work / Margaretta Grey --
Women and world / Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon --
"Wanted: more women" / Englishwomen's Review --
Diary of a young teacher / Charlotte Brontë --
On the requirements of a governess / Charlotte Brontë --
Earning a living / Sara Burstall --
"My first post" / M. Vivian Hughes --
"On visiting prisons" / Elizabeth Fry --
Effects of Mrs. Fry's system --
Visit to Newgate / Sophia de C. --
Victoria Press / Emily Faithfull --
Work as a poor law guardian / Emmeline Pankhurst --
Her first article / Harriet Martineau --
Her first lecture / Annie Besant --
Speech at Pontrefact / Josephine Butler --
Ballad to Florence Nightingale --
Faults of women / Florence Nightingale --
Advice to young women / Florence Nightingale --
Advice to nursing students / Florence Nightingale --
"Difficulties of trained nurses" / Victoria Magazine --
Need for the professionalism of midwifery / Englishwoman's Review --
Midwife's career / Mrs. Layton --
Women's education and male profession / Frederick Denison Maurice --
Woman as doctor-or nurse / The Lancet --
Speech for admission to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh / Sophia Jex-Blake --
On Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson / Josephine Butler --
Testimony before the Civil Service Commission / Gertrude Jane King --
Women as telegraph clerks / Frank Ives Scudamore --
"Cheapness of women" / Dora M. Jones --
Servants work / Harriet Martineau --
Maid of all work / Anne Thackeray, Lady Ritchie --
Farmer's maid / Sybil Marshall --
Duties of the lady's maid Isabella Beeton --
"Dislike to domestic service" / Clementine Black --
Speech on the Ten Hours Bill / Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Ashley --
Testimony of a mill worker / Elizabeth Bentley --
"White slavery" of London match workers / Annie Besant --
Sexual harassment in factories / Clara Collet --
"Song of the shirt" / Thomas Hood --
Interviews with needleworkers / Henry Mayhew --
Shop girl's life / Margaret Bondfield --
"Seats for shopwomen" / Englishwoman's Review --
Barmaid's work / Victoria Magazine --
Dairywomen / Harriet Martineau --
Yorkshire cliff climber / A.J. Munby --
Childhood in field work / Mrs. Burrows --
Testimony on gang work / Elizabeth Dickson, Rachel Clackson Gibson, Sarah Ann Roberts --
Work in the mines / Elizabeth Day, Margaret Gomley, Patience Kershaw, Betty Harris, and Rosa Lucas --
Suitability of pit-brow work / Englishwoman's Review --
Street people of London / Henry Mayhew --
Two classes of prostitutes / William Acton --
Interviews with London prostitutes / Henry Mayhew --
Wrens of the Curragh / Pall Mall Gazette --
Why women fall / William Rathbone Greg --
Social function of prostitution / William Lecky --
Double answer to prayer / John Blackmore --
Fallen sisters / Emma Sheppard --