Out of Stock

This item is currently unavailable

Jeanie, an 'Army of One': Mrs Nassau Senior, 1828-1877, the First Woman in Whitehall

Out of Stock

Price data last checked 153 day(s) ago - refreshing...

View at Amazon

One email. No newsletter. No nudges.

Gone for 153 days. Could come back at any time — we're watching for you.

Out of stock 153 days · last price £105 · longest previous gap was 1 days

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey
↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next
↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range
↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 578 days • 578 data points (No recent data available)

Historical
Generating forecast...
£105.00 £50.00 £62.00 £74.00 £86.00 £98.00 £110.00 10 June 2024 01 November 2024 25 March 2025 16 August 2025 08 January 2026

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 578 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price
Current Price
544 days 34 days · current 0 136 272 408 544 £55 £105 Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £55 (544 days, 94.1%)

Price range: £55 - £105

Price levels: 2 different prices over 578 days

Description

This first full biography of Mrs. Nassau Senior, 1822-1877, tells how an extraordinary woman escaped from the constraints of Victorian domesticity to become the first woman in Whitehall and one of Britain's great social reformers. An ardent Christian Socialist radical, like her brother Thomas Hughes (author of Tom Brown's Schooldays), Jeanie Senior pioneered social work with Octavia Hill, co-founded the British Red Cross in the Franco-Prussian war and battled as 'Government Inspector' on behalf of exploited Workhouse girls. She was ferociously attacked for advocating the fostering of all pauper orphans rather than their incarceration and for indicting Workhouse 'Barrack' schools for producing prostitution fodder. Her fight to defend her findings against male hostility politicised her and she became an icon for the late 19th century women's movement. Jeanie Senior was also a significant figure in the worlds of art, music and literature, even being, it is argued here, the vital inspiration for her friend George Eliot in creating Dorothea, heroine of Middlemarch. Her life was a great 'human story' as she struggled in the teeth of multiple bereavement, an unhappy marriage and cancer in order to rescue others more desperate and vulnerable still. Florence Nightingale told her she had been 'a noble Army of one' and later grieved that her 'premature death was a national and irreparable loss'.

Product Specifications

Format
hardcover
Domain
Amazon UK
Release Date
01 December 2007
Listed Since
16 April 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Similar Products You Might Like

Margaret Harkness: Writing Social Engagement 1880–1921 (Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century)
95% match

Margaret Harkness: Writing Social Engagement 1880–1921 (Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century)

Manchester University Press

£65.93 15 Dec 2025
English Prose of the Nineteenth Century (Longman Literature In English Series)
95% match

English Prose of the Nineteenth Century (Longman Literature In English Series)

Routledge

£120.76 06 Mar 2026
Victorian Medicine and Social Reform: Florence Nightingale among the Novelists (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters)
95% match

Victorian Medicine and Social Reform: Florence Nightingale among the Novelists (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters)

MACMILLAN

£74.20 09 Apr 2026
George Eliot's Intellectual Life
95% match

George Eliot's Intellectual Life

Cambridge University Press

£56.80 26 Feb 2026
Jane Morris: The Burden of History (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture)
95% match

Jane Morris: The Burden of History (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture)

Edinburgh University Press

Out of Stock 22 Jan 2026
Dorothea Dix: New England Reformer (Harvard Historical Studies): 127
95% match

Dorothea Dix: New England Reformer (Harvard Historical Studies): 127

Harvard University Press

£47.97 12 Feb 2026
Women as Public Moralists in Britain - From the Bluestockings to Virginia Woolf: Volume 95 (Royal Historical Society Studies in History) (Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series)
95% match

Women as Public Moralists in Britain - From the Bluestockings to Virginia Woolf: Volume 95 (Royal Historical Society Studies in History) (Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series)

Royal Historical Society

£78.91 12 Jan 2026
Model Women of the Press: Gender, Politics and Women’s Professional Journalism, 1850–1880 (The Nineteenth Century Series)
95% match

Model Women of the Press: Gender, Politics and Women’s Professional Journalism, 1850–1880 (The Nineteenth Century Series)

Routledge

£40.99 13 Apr 2026
Eliot's Middlemarch (Reader's Guides)
95% match

Eliot's Middlemarch (Reader's Guides)

Continuum

£107.44 04 Mar 2026
The Diaries of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury: Vol. 1: 1825-1845, Part Two: 66 (Records of Social and Economic History)
95% match

The Diaries of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury: Vol. 1: 1825-1845, Part Two: 66 (Records of Social and Economic History)

Oxford University Press

£80.81 06 Jan 2026
Harriet Martineau and the Birth of Disciplines: Nineteenth-century intellectual powerhouse (The Nineteenth Century Series)
95% match

Harriet Martineau and the Birth of Disciplines: Nineteenth-century intellectual powerhouse (The Nineteenth Century Series)

Routledge

£144.75 10 Mar 2026
George Eliot (Routledge Guides to Literature)
95% match

George Eliot (Routledge Guides to Literature)

Routledge

£127.67 07 Jan 2026
The Oxford Handbook of George Eliot
95% match

The Oxford Handbook of George Eliot

£156.00 12 Jan 2026
Names & Stories: Emilia Dilke & Victorian Culture
95% match

Names & Stories: Emilia Dilke & Victorian Culture

Oxford University Press

£73.00 14 Feb 2026
Middlemarch: 5 (Routledge Library Editions: George Eliot)
94% match

Middlemarch: 5 (Routledge Library Editions: George Eliot)

Routledge

£73.59 27 Feb 2026
George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology: Exploring the Unmapped Country (The Nineteenth Century Series)
94% match

George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology: Exploring the Unmapped Country (The Nineteenth Century Series)

Routledge

£44.20 13 Apr 2026
The Gypsy-Bachelor of Manchester: The Life of Mrs. Gaskell's Demon (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
94% match

The Gypsy-Bachelor of Manchester: The Life of Mrs. Gaskell's Demon (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)

University of Virginia Press

£62.36 25 Feb 2026
The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney (Race and American Culture)
94% match

The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney (Race and American Culture)

University of Georgia Press

£55.95 08 Mar 2026
New Essays on Maria Edgeworth
94% match

New Essays on Maria Edgeworth

£115.22 13 Jan 2026
Representing Female Artistic Labour, 1848–1890: Refining Work for the Middle-Class Woman
94% match

Representing Female Artistic Labour, 1848–1890: Refining Work for the Middle-Class Woman

Routledge

£52.77 08 Mar 2026
Mary, Countess of Derby, and the Politics of Victorian Britain
94% match

Mary, Countess of Derby, and the Politics of Victorian Britain

Oxford University Press

£80.49 07 Jan 2026
Florence Nightingale on Health in India: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 9
94% match

Florence Nightingale on Health in India: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 9

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

£108.39 31 Jan 2026
Routledge - The Ethical Vision of George Eliot (Books)
94% match

Routledge - The Ethical Vision of George Eliot (Books)

Routledge

£136.45 16 Apr 2026
British Women's History: A Documentary History from the Enlightenment to World War I (International Library of Historical Studies): v. 44
94% match

British Women's History: A Documentary History from the Enlightenment to World War I (International Library of Historical Studies): v. 44

I. B. Tauris & Company

£85.27 07 Apr 2026