Woman

_ argues for "separate spheres" appropriate to men and women and that women's influence in the workplace should be in her actual presences in the workplace, but rahter as a "secret influence" as a man's "second conscience"

Sarah Stickney Ellis, in The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits

In Coventry Patmore's The Angel in the House, the domestic sphere is described as a place where

Wives are reverenced and pampered and husbands are solictious and appreciative

While Queen Victoria encouraged the establishment of a college for women in 1847, what concept did she call "mad folly" ?

Women's right to vote

Who became famous for organizing a contingent of nurses to care for the sick and wounded soldiers during the Crimean War?

Florence Nightingale

Who wondered, "Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity- these three- and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?"

Florence Nightingale, in Cassandra

Mona Caird argued that marriage, at the time of her writing, was "a vexatious failure" and "an insult to human dignity". What concepts did she advocate instead?

Free marriage, the right of women to give or withhold herself body and soul, economical independence of women, co-educational of the sexes

Even the most radical authors on the "woman question" seldom argued that men and women were essentially similar. They debated about which of the following?

The extend of the dissimilarity between the sexes. what proper relations between the sexes ought to be, which "womanly" qualities were fixed and inherent and which were culturally determined, what worts of activities women were best suited to or disabled from attempting

By mid-century, one-quarter of England's female population worked, the majority as domestic servants, seamstresses, factory operatives, and rural laborers (not to mention unlawful professions)

True

The doctrine of separate spheres for men and women was largely a middle-class doctrine; working-class women, married and otherwise, could not afford to stay within the domestic sphere

True