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- Title
Pictures from the Margins of Marriage: Representations of Spinsters and Single Mothers in the mid-Victorian Novel, Inter-war Hollywood Melodrama and British Film of the 1950s and 1960s.
- Authors
Fink, Janet; Holden, Katherine
- Abstract
Investigates the representation of spinsters and unmarried mothers in literature and film in Great Britain. Discussion on the changes in the experiences of women in Great Britain and the United States in the period between 1930 and 1960; How the stigmatization of unmarried mothers portrayed in the literary and visual representations of the first half of the nineteenth century; Information on the films 'Forbidden' and 'The Old Maid.'
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; UNMARRIED mothers; WOMEN in literature; SINGLE mothers in motion pictures; SINGLE women; FORBIDDEN (Film); SINGLE women in motion pictures
- Publication
Gender & History, 1999, Vol 11, Issue 2, p233
- ISSN
0953-5233
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-0424.00141