‘We are not so old as the ladies used to be when I was a girl’. Time, atemporality and female ageing in Cranford
A talk by Dr Sara Zadrozny, University of Oxford, Department for Continuing Education The census of 1851, the year in which “Our Society at Cranford” first appeared in Household Words, provoked concerns in society about the rising numbers of “old maids”: unmarried middle-class women who were unlikely to find husbands. Cranford challenges these concerns, and […]
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