Victorian hidden mothers and the continued erasure of mothering
Why do Victorian ‘hidden mother’ photographs shock us? We’re still expected to hide the work of mothering from public view
by Andrea Kaston Tange
Andrea Kaston Tange is a professor of English at Macalester College in Minnesota. Her books include Architectural Identities: Literature, Domesticity, and the Victorian Middle Classes (University of Toronto Press, 2010), and Children and Empire (Routledge, 2012), co-edited with Cheryl Cassidy.
Written by Andrea Kaston Tange