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Recent PhD History graduate publishes book

Date: 1 October 2012

Dr Dianne Lawrence, a recent PhD student in the History Department, and former Honorary Research Fellow, has just had published a book, derived from her thesis, entitled Genteel women: empire and domestic material culture, 1840-1910. The book, published by Manchester University Press in its 'Studies in Imperialism' series, examines the homemaking practices of such women in various sites across the British Empire. It is notable in being the first work to address the significance of the concept and enactment of female gentility within the broader framework of colonial development. In so doing it offers a revised reading of the behaviours, motivations and practices of female elites, thereby calling into doubt the oft-stated notion that such women were a constraining element in new and developing societies.