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NOTES INTRODUCTION Linda J.Nicholson, Gender and History: The Limits of Social Theory in the Age of the Family, New York, Columbia University Press, 1986, p 40 Lawrence Stone, The Past and the Present Revisited, revised edn, London and New York, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987, pp 87–8 Griselda Pollock, Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and the Histories of Art, London and New York, Routledge, 1988, pp 31–2 Stone, op cit., p 89 Martin Meisel, Realizations, New York, Columbia University Press, 1983 THE SOCIOECONOMIC ORGANIZATION OF THE THEATRE For background on Victorian employment, see: M.Mostyn Bird, Woman at Work: A Study of the Different Ways of Earning a Living Open to Women, London, Chapman and Hall, 1911; Edith J.Morley (ed.) Women Workers in Seven Professions: A Survey of their Economic Conditions and Prospects, London, Routledge, 1914; Wanda Fraiken Neff, Victorian Working Women: An Historical and Literary Study of Women in British Industries and Professions, 1832–1850, 1929, reprinted London, Allen & Unwin, 1966; Ivy Pinchbeck, Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution 1750–1850, 1930, reprinted London, Virago, 1981; and H.Byerley Thomson, The Choice of a Profession: A Concise Account and Comparative Review of the English Professions, London, Chapman and Hall, 1857 Janet Murray’s collection of primary readings gives a good impression of Victorian ideas about proper feminine behaviour: Strong-Minded Women and Other Lost Voices from Nineteenth-Century England, New York, Pantheon, 1982 Secondary studies include: Leonore Davidoff, The Best Circles: Society, Etiquette and the Season, London, Croom Helm, 1973; Carol Dyhouse, Girls Growing up in Late Victorian and Edwardian England, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981; and Deborah Gorham, The Victorian Girl and the Feminine Ideal, London and Canberra, Croom Helm, 1982 Christopher Kent’s essay ‘Image and Reality: The Actress and Society’ is in a useful collection on gender stereotyping, sexuality, and social fragmentation, in Martha Vicinus (ed.) A Widening Sphere: Changing Roles of Victorian Women, London, Methuen, 1977 Michael Baker, The Rise of the Victorian Actor, London, Croom Helm, 1978 164