Family fortunes : men and women of the English middle class, 1780-1850 / Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davidoff, Leonore, author.

Hall, Catherine, 1946- author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle class--England--History--18th century--Case studies.

Middle class.

Middle class women--England--History--18th century--Case studies.

Middle class women.

Middle class--England--History--19th century--Case studies.

Middle class women--England--History--19th century--Case studies.

History.

England.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (lxiv, 576 pages.)

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part 1 Religion and Ideology p. 71

1 'The one thing needful': religion and the middle class p. 76

Church and chapel activity - The Evangelical revival and serious Christianity - Church against Dissent - The religious community

2 'Ye are all one in Christ Jesus': men, women and religion p. 107

Doctrines on manliness - Doctrines on femininity - The ministry - The minister's wife - John Angell James: 'bishop' of Birmingham - Church organization: women voting and women speaking -Laymen and women

3 'The nursery of virtue': domestic ideology and the middle class p. 149

The Queen Caroline affair - Middle-class readers and writers -William Cowper and Hannah More - Local writers on separate spheres - Domestic ideologies of the 1830s and 1840s

Part 2 Economic Structure and Opportunity p. 193

4 'A modest competency': men, women and property p. 198

Enterprise organization - Land and capital - Enterprise finance -Providing for dependants - The interdependence of enterprise, family and friends - The role of marriage in the enterprise - Training for the enterprise - Retirement from the enterprise

5 'A man must act': men and the enterprise p. 229

Middle-class men and occupations - The search for a 'sound commercial education' - Commerce and trade - Banks and banking - Manufacture - Farming - The professions - The salaried

6 'The hidden investment': women and the enterprise p. 272

Women and property - Women's contribution to the enterprise -The education of women and its effects - Women as teachers -Women as innkeepers - Women in trade - The marginal place of women in the economy - Women, men and occupation identity - How did women survive?

Part 3 Everyday Life: Gender in Action p. 317

7 'Our family is a little world': family structure and relationships p. 321

The role of marriage in family formation - Fatherhood -Motherhood - Children - Brothers and sisters - The role of wider kin

8 'My own fireside': the creation of the middle-class home p. 357

What was a home? - The separation of home from work - The meaning of the garden - The lay-out of the home - Running the home - The question of servants

9 'Lofty pine and clinging vine': living with gender in the middle class p. 397

Manner and gentility - Changing attitudes to sexuality - Mobility and gender - Gender and the social occasion - Gender as appearance

10 'Improving times': men, women and the public sphere p. 416

James Bisset of Birmingham - Voluntary associations -Philanthropic societies - Leisure and pleasure - Men, women and citizenship.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Davidoff, Leonore. Family fortunes.

ISBN:

9781351654166

1351654160

Publisher Number:

99983999839

99980184491

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.