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Jun 16, 2020 · Reading Comprehension (Lit-AO1, Lang-AO1) When students read the play and explore Mrs Birling’s treatment of Eva Smith, they employ their comprehension skills and critical reading skills, looping in their knowledge of context to gain a better understanding of Mrs Birling’s choices and actions. Students build on this when completing a ...
The Inspector questions Mrs Birling about the Brumley Women’s Charity Organization, which helps women in trouble. Mrs Birling says they give help to those who deserve it. She was chairing the meeting two weeks ago. Mr Birling returns. Eric is not in his room. The Inspector says Eric is needed, but refuses to say more.
- Enslaved Women and Servants
- Division of Labor by Gender
- Women Outside Marriage
- Women in Cities
- During The Revolution
- After The Revolution
- Beginnings of Industrialization
Other women worked as servants or were enslaved. Some European women came as indentured servants, required to serve a certain amount of time before having independence. Women who were enslaved, captured from Africa or born to enslaved mothers, often did the same work men did, in the home or in the field. Some work was skilled labor, but much was un...
The typical white home in 18th century Americawas engaged in agriculture. The men were responsible for agricultural labor and the women for "domestic" chores: 1. Cooking 2. Cleaning 3. Spinning yarn 4. Weaving and sewing cloth 5. Care of the animals that lived near the house 6. Care of the gardens 7. Caring for the children Women participated in "m...
Unmarried women, or divorced women without property, might work in another household, helping out with household chores of the wife or substituting for the wife if there was not one in the family. (Widows and widowers tended to remarry very quickly, though.) Some unmarried or widowed women ran schools or taught in them, or worked as governesses for...
In cities, where families owned shops or worked in trades, the women often took care of domestic chores including: 1. Raising children 2. Preparing food 3. Cleaning 4. Taking care of small animals and house gardens 5. Preparing clothing They also often worked alongside their husbands, assisting with some tasks in the shop or business, or taking car...
During the American Revolution, many women in Colonial families participated in boycotting British goods, which meant more home manufacture to replace those items. When men were at war, the women and children had to do the chores that would usually have been done by the men.
After the Revolution and into the early 19th century, higher expectations for educating the children fell, often, to the mother. Widows and the wives of men off to war or traveling on business often ran large farms and plantations pretty much as the sole managers.
In the 1840s and 1850s, as the Industrial Revolutionand factory labor took hold in the United States, more women went to work outside the home. By 1840, 10% of women held jobs outside the household. Ten years later, this had risen to 15%. Factory owners hired women and children when they could because they could pay lower wages to women and childre...
Interactions with Inspector Goole. She is the only character to stay completely unaffected by Inspector Goole’s revelations – she shows no emotion about Eva until she learns about Eric’s involvement. Mrs Birling also tries to intimidate Inspector Goole into leaving and lies to him outright. Later in the play, she tries to deny truths that ...
A dominant ideology at the beginning of the 1800s was called Republican Motherhood: middle- and upper-class white women were expected to educate the young to be good citizens of the new country. The other dominant ideology on gender roles at the time was separate spheres: Women were to rule the domestic sphere (home and raising children) while ...
The earliest studies of women and the law in early America include Richard B. Morris, Studies in the Early History of American Law, With Special Reference to the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1930); Julia Cherry Spruill, Women’s Life and Work in the Southern Colonies (1932); and Mary Ritter Beard, Woman as Force in History: A Study in ...
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Sybil Birling immediately abhors the girl when they first meet because she says that her name is 'Mrs Birling', a claim 'simply absurd' for a 'girl in her position'. Sibilance of repeated 's' sound mimics a snake-like sound, one designed to demonstrate Sybil Birling's evil intent. In order to disguise her evil nature, Sybil Birling uses the ...
