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Title: And even longer to go...
Review: This is a reasoned and scholarly approach to women's history in a specific place and time without being too scholarly and narrow.Perkin covers the span of Victorian England in time, place, and class.The tone is measured, even while delivering facts sure to outrage - it was perfectly acceptable in the country fairs for a man to sell his wife and well within the law for a man to claim every cent his wife earned.Perkin's concluding chapter shows how far women came in one country, in one century, but is ever mindful of the suffering it took to achieve it.
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