middle class women

Charleston debutant Sarah Walters moves to New York to attend college and learns that the lessons taught at the Cotillion Training School do not necessarily apply to relationships in the big city.

Susan Isaacs, a comedian and skeptical Christian who was raised Lutheran, describes the spiritual quest she took at age forty to reestablish her relationship with God.

Charleston debutant Sarah Walters moves to New York to attend college where she learns that the lessons taught at Cotillion Training School do not necessarily apply to relationships in the big city.

Examines the daily responsibilities of middle-class married women in Victorian London, including their appearance, housecleaning and laundry, managing the servants, balancing the budget, educating the children, and handling the family's religious and social lives.

Washington Post reporter Elisabeth Bumiller tells the story of an ordinary woman in a typical Japanese family who let the reporter into her life for more than a year.

A study of women in Victorian America, examining topics such as courtship and marriage, motherhood, etiquette, household duties, and women's health.