Patricia Zakreski''s Interdisciplinary Study Draws On Fiction, Prose, Painting, And The Periodical Press To Expand And Redefine Our Understanding Of Women''s Relationship To Paid Work During The Victorian Period. While The Idea Of ''separate Spheres'' Has Largely Gone Uncontested By Feminist Critics Studying Female Labour During The Nineteenth Century, Zakreski Challenges This Distinction By Showing That The Divisions Between Public And Private Were, In Fact, Surprisingly Flexible, With Homes Described As Workplaces And Workplaces As Homes. By Combining Art With Forms Of Industrial Or Mass Production In Representations Of The Respectable Woman Worker, Writers Projected A Form Of Paid Creative Work That Was Not Violated Or Profaned By The Public World Of The Market In Which It Was Traded.