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The ideal woman of the Victorian era was a combination of sexual innocence, conspicuous consumption, and worship of the family hearth -- with marriage and procreation being a woman's only function. Suffer and Be Still is a collection of ten lively essays which document the feminine stereotypes that Victorian women fought against, but only partially defeated.Vicinus, Martha is the author of 'Suffer+be Still:women in Victorian Age' with ISBN 9780253355720 and ISBN 0253355729.
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