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Man must be pleased; but him to please
Is woman's pleasure; down the gulf
Of his condoled necessities
She casts her best, she flings herself.
How often flings for nought, and yokes
Her heart to an icicle or whim,
Whose each impatient word provokes
Another, not from her, but him;
While she, too gentle even to force
His penitence by kind replies,
Waits by, expecting his remorse,
With pardon in her pitying eyes;
And if he once, by shame oppress'd,
A comfortable word confers,
She leans and weeps against his breast,
And seems to think the sin was hers;
Or any eye to see her charms,
At any time, she's still his wife,
Dearly devoted to his arms;
She loves with love that cannot tire;
And when, ah woe, she loves alone,
Through passionate duty love springs higher,
As grass grows taller round a stone.”
― Coventry Patmore

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An excerpt from Cassandra by Florence Nightingale: 'Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity - these three - and a place where no one of these three be exercised. …it seems as if the female spirit of the world is in mourning everlasting over blessings not lost, but which she has never had, in her discouragement she feels that she will never have, they are so far off'.

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An excerpt from Cassandra by Florence Nightingale: 'Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity - these three - and a place where no one of these three be exercised. …it seems as if the female spirit of the world is in mourning everlasting over blessings not lost, but which she has never had, in her discouragement she feels that she will never have, they are so far off'.

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Page from Beyond the Ballot - Royal Holloway, University of London

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Explore the campaign for women's right to vote and its impact on women's rights and equality to the present day.

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The History of Women's Rights - Online Course

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Discover the progression of women's rights, starting in the nineteenth century, with this online course from Royal Holloway and the Houses of Parliament.

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 Foucault argued that, far from silencing sex as a taboo subject, the Victorians inaugurated many of the discourses – legal, medical and sexological (the scientific study of sex) – that allowed sex to become a legitimate subject for investigation and discussion.

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 Foucault argued that, far from silencing sex as a taboo subject, the Victorians inaugurated many of the discourses – legal, medical and sexological (the scientific study of sex) – that allowed sex to become a legitimate subject for investigation and discussion.

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Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality (1976).

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‘Her love, her tenderness, her affectionate solicitude for his [her husband’s] comfort and enjoyment, her devotedness, her unwearying care’

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‘Her love, her tenderness, her affectionate solicitude for his [her husband’s] comfort and enjoyment, her devotedness, her unwearying care’

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Peter Gaskell (1833)

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‘the majority of women (happily for them) are not very much troubled by sexual feelings of any kind

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‘the majority of women (happily for them) are not very much troubled by sexual feelings of any kind

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William Acton,The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs (1857)

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Victorian sexualities | The British Library

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How repressed were the Victorians? Dr Holly Furneaux challenges assumptions about Victorian attitudes towards sex, considering how theorists such as Michel Foucault and Judith Butler have provided new ways of understanding sex and sexuality in the period.

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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Bluestockings. Around the middle of the eighteenth century a small group of intellectual women began to meet regularly to discuss literature and other matters, inviting some of the leading thinkers of the day to take part in informal salons.

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Differences Between the Rich and the Poor

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Differences Between the Rich and the Poor

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Give at least two examples of how marriage and women are presented in the texts. Confidently discuss the contradictory representations of women in the first half of the eighteenth century

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1) To discuss the idea of
'separate spheres'
2) To discuss conflicting portrayals of women 1800 -1850.
3)To discuss the extracts from Bleak House and The Angel... To

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Link to extract from The Angel in the House

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Link to extract from The Angel in the House

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Link to The Angel in the House - full text

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Link to The Angel in the House - full text