Family

Question 1

LWF - friendship/society valued over family, shallow values QUOTES x6

Answer 1

• “Quite delightful…dreadfully dull!” - Dumby
• “dear girl! so devoted to sunsets!”
• “yes mamma”
• “That rich young Australian people are taking such notice of just at present”
• Mrs E using LW to get into society
• motherly feelings “terrible - made me suffer”

Question 2

LWF - friendship/society valued over family, shallow values CRITICS

Answer 2

• “corrupt and hypocritical society” - Small

Question 3

LWF - friendship/society valued over family, shallow values CONTEXT

Answer 3

economic imperative for women to marry due to legal restrictions on female inheritance and limited opportunities in public sphere

Question 4

Betrayal - friendship/work valued over family QUOTES x5

Answer 4

• “You don’t actually want a woman within a mile of the place” - R
• “Does a lot of running. He’s a long distance runner. He wants to be a zoologist” … (about Sarah) “She’s ten.” - J
• “What about the kids?” -E “I don’t think he mentioned them.” - R
• “I have a home. With curtains, et cetera. And children.” J
• “Sam must be … tall”

Question 5

Betrayal - friendship valued over family CRITICS

Answer 5

• ‘preoccupation with male friendship’ Lonesco

Question 6

Betrayal - friendship valued over family CONTEXT

Answer 6

• Latch key kids - often left unsupervised
• 1967 contraception made available through NHS

Question 7

LWF - familial importance QUOTES x4

Answer 7

• “I feel a passion awakening within me that i never felt before…how can i save her? How can i save my child?
• “if he had a thousand loves, you must stay with your child”
• “I won’t let you know my daughter, you are far too wicked” - DOB
• “It will ruin her, and make her wretched”

Question 8

LWF - familial importance CRITIC

Answer 8

• ‘Women were more dependent on an appropriate marriage than men’ - Grigoleit

Question 9

LWF - familial importance CONTEXT

Answer 9

Domesticity and motherhood were considered by society at large to be a sufficient emotional fulfilment for females. These constructs kept women far away from the public sphere in most ways. If a woman was divorced due to adultery she had no legal rights to her children.

Question 10

Betrayal - familial importance QUOTES x3

Answer 10

• ‘I’m picking Charlotte up from school. I’m taking her shopping’
• ‘She’s just putting Ned to bed’
• “very happy for you” (E pregnant)

Question 11

Betrayal - familial importance CRITIC

Answer 11

‘The toughness and fortitude of women’ Billington

Question 12

Betrayal - familial importance CONTEXT

Answer 12

Having an affair with married men was a desire on the part of these young women to focus on career. . Involvement with a married man reduces the likelihood of the affair leading to marriage, and limits the amount of time and energy which he is able to devote to the extramarital relationship, thereby freeing her to concentrate on career advancement. Another advantage to having a married affair partner is that that individual has much to lose, for example, marriage and its benefits, children, home, and financial assets, so he or she is likely to make fewer demands.