Kathryn Hughes explores the repressive and often contradictory expectations of women in middle-class Victorian society while examining how women such as Florence Nightingale and Elizabeth Barrett-Browning managed to challenge those expectations. [7:39]

Concepts

florence nightingale

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Additional Tags

british library: gender in 19th-century britain, elizabeth barrett-browning, fashion in victorian age, victorian age, women in victorian age

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional