ABSTRACT

In addition to providing useful sources, the intention of this bibliography 1 is to support the case for studying the social position of English women by questioning the relationships existing between the various social and intellectual changes that transformed national life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the changes that occurred in the roles, attitudes, and activities of women during that period. A major argument for this focus is that it avoids flat description of women’s behavior in their immediate milieu in favor of an attempt to analyze the meaning and function of women’s roles within the wider matrix of English society. Social historians are beginning to include this focus, and the thesis that societal and sex-role change are interdependent, in their analytical schema.