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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 and Be Still Women in the Victorian Age', published 1973 under ISBN 9780253201683 and ISBN 0253201683.
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