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The hothouse flower : nurturing women in the victorian conservatory /

Traces the interrelations of architecture, literature, social history, and gender in Anglo-American society of the late 19th and early 20th centuries by examining the conservatory (a glassed, heated building for the display of plants (and people)). The central metaphor of the Victorian lady as an e...

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Main Author:	Darby, Margaret Flanders (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Brighton : Edward Everett Root, 2020.
Subjects:	Sex role in literature. Greenhouses in literature. Women > Social life and customs > 19th century. Conservatories in literature. Women > Social life and customs. 1800-1899

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