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We have already noted that social service was only one of a number of possible ways into public life for Victorian ladies. What was its distinguishing character and how easy a path was it?
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2 The Nature of Social Service
Parsons, ‘The Kinship System of the Contemporary United States’, in Essays in Sociological Theory (1949).
Ruskin, ‘Of Queens’ Gardens’ in Sesame and Lilies (1880) pp. 91–2.
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Parker, J. (1989). The Nature of Social Service. In: Women and Welfare. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19817-7_3
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