BIBLIOGRAPHY

Attar, Dena. Introduction to A Bibliography of Household Books Published in Britain, 1800-1914, pp. 11-59. London: Prospect Books, 1987.

Full-length bibliography. Introduction surveys the major types of household manuals and instruction books published during the nineteenth century; outlines major subject areas and common themes.

CRITICISM

Armstrong, Nancy. “The Rise of the Domestic Woman.” In The Ideology of Conduct: Essays on Literature and the History of Sexuality, edited by Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse, pp. 96-141. New York: Methuen, 1987.

Discusses the history of household manuals for women through the early nineteenth century, focusing on the creation of female subjectivity and the role of private, domestic life in economic society.

Carré, Jacques. “The Lady and the Poor Man; or, the Philanthropists's Etiquette.” In The Crisis of Courtesy: Studies in the Conduct-Book in Britain, 1600-1900, edited by Jacques Carré, pp. 157-66. Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1994.

Examines the conduct books designed specifically to guide behavior when performing charitable works.

Fillin, Lucille and Walter Fillin. “Nineteenth-Century Women Cook Book Authors.” In Nineteenth-Century Women Writers of the English-Speaking World, edited by Rhoda B. Nathan, pp. 61-78. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.

Gives a history of the cookbook and the social context in which it developed; notes the attention given in these cookbooks to moral issues, health, and hygiene.

Grothe, Meriwynn. “Franco's Angels: Recycling the Ideology of Domesticity.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 33, no. 3 (October 1999): 513-37.

Compares the “angel in the house” image of the nineteenth-century “cult of domesticity” with its reemergence under the rise of fascism in twentieth-century Spain.

Hall, Catherine. “The Early Formation of Victorian Domestic Ideology.” In Fit Work for Women, edited by Sandra Burman, pp. 15-32. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979.

Provides an overview of how the writings of Hannah More, William Wilberforce, and other proponents of Evangelical ideology played a major role in creating Victorian ideals of domesticity and womanhood.

Houston, Gail Turley. “Reading and Writing Victoria: The Conduct Book and the Legal Constitution of Female Sovereignty.” In Remaking Queen Victoria, edited by Margaret Homans and Adrienne Munich, pp. 159-81. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Analyzes the interconnection of conduct literature and the legal definitions of gender and gender roles, including the gender of the monarch, and notes in some conduct books a resistance to traditional male dominance in public life.

Hunt, Linda C. “A Woman's Portion: Jane Austen and the Female Character.” In Fetter'd or Free?: British Women Novelists, 1670-1815, edited by Mary Anne Schofield and Cecilia Macheski, pp. 8-28. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1986.

Views Austen's later female characters, such as Fanny Price and Anne Elliot, as fictional counterparts to the ideal women of early women's conduct books.

Johnson, Nan. “Reigning in the Court of Silence: Women and Rhetorical Space.” In Gender and Rhetorical Space in American Life, 1866-1910, pp. 48-76. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002.

Highlights the advice for women's speaking found in nineteenth-century conduct books; notes the positions from which women could speak appropriately and the frequent exhortations to be modest and reserved.

Kasson, John F. “Etiquette Books and the Spread of Gentility.” In Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America, pp. 34-69. New York: Hill and Wang, 1990.

Observes the role of expanding print culture in the popularity of behavior literature; surveys authors, readers, critics, and common themes.

Kilcup, Karen L. “‘Essays of Invention’: Transformations of Advice in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing.” In Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Critical Reader, edited by Karen L. Kilcup, pp. 184-205. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1998.

Discusses cookbooks, advice manuals, short fiction, and other modes of writing aimed at educating and improving women.

Labbe, Jacqueline M. “Cultivating One's Understanding: The Female Romantic Garden.” Women's Writing 4, no. 1 (1997): 39-56.

Argues that Romantic women poets such as Ann Francis and Dorothy Wordsworth transformed the garden metaphors of conduct authors like Hannah More into images of freedom and empowerment.

Morgan, Marjorie. Manners, Morals, and Class in England, 1774-1858, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, 196 p.

Studies etiquette, courtesy, and conduct books to illuminate transformations in English society in the nineteenth century prior to the reign of Queen Victoria; emphasizes changes in class and gender roles.

Morrison, Lucy. “Conduct (Un)Becoming to Ladies of Literature: How-To Guides for Romantic Women Writers.” Studies in Philology 99, no. 2 (spring 2002): 202-28.

Contends that conduct books offered a mode of liberation from patriarchal traditions, particularly for the women who defied convention by authoring their own texts.

Quinlan, Maurice J. “The Model Female.” In Victorian Prelude: A History of English Manners, 1700-1830. 1941. Reprint, with a new preface by the author, pp. 139-59. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1965.

Reads the work of Hannah More as a reaction against Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

St. George, Andrew. “At Home with the Great Exhibition.” In The Descent of Manners: Etiquette, Rules and the Victorians, pp. 84-137. London: Chatto & Windus, 1993.

Maintains that mid-Victorian England was preoccupied with the concept of “home” as exemplified by the Great Exhibition, and that the middle-class woman's first priority was to provide what home represents: security, tranquility, and happiness.

Silver, Anna Krugovoy. “Waisted Women: Reading Victorian Slenderness.” In Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body, pp. 25-50. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Considers conduct literature in relation to the development of an “anorexic culture” in Victorian England.

Stott, Anne. “Praise and Opposition, 1798-1799.” In Hannah More: The First Victorian, pp. 211-31. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Provides the personal and social context for the development of More's Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education.