jan 1, 1840 - "The moral panic engendered in the 1840s by the vision of women working in the mines, mills and factories of England..." (Davidoff and Hall p.184.)

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"The moral panic engendered in the 1840s by the vision of women working in the mines, mills and factories of England was fuelled by the view that woman's duty was to care for home and children." (Davidoff and Hall p.184.)


Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850, by Catherine Hall and Leonore Davidoff, 1987.

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