ISBN:
9781000560886
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (375 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.850941
Keywords:
Families-Great Britain-History
;
Parenthood-Great Britain
;
Parent and child
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
The five volumes of this collection focus on various aspects of family life. Drawing on rare printed sources and archival material, this collection will provide a balanced, contextualized picture of family life, during a period of intense social change. It will appeal to scholars of social history, gender studies and the long nineteenth century.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Beyond Parents and Children -- Anon., 'Grand-Mothers', 'Widows' and 'Old Maids', in Instructions for the Conduct of Females (1788) -- Anon., 'Three Reports of the Sub-Committee, Appointed by the Fever Institution, to Direct the White-Washing, with Quick Lime, of those Dwellings of the Poor', in The Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor (1802) -- Jacob Phillips, A Letter from a Grandfather to his Grandson (1818), excerpts -- Anon., Harry & -- William, or, The Two Cousins (1821), excerpts -- Old Humphrey [George Mogridge], My Grandfather Gregory ([c.1820s]), excerpts -- Mrs O. F. Walton, Nobody Loves Me (1883), excerpt -- 'Interview: Miss Agnes Garrett', Women's Penny Paper (1890) -- Servants and Lodgers -- Anon., The Contrast: or The Opposite Consequences of Good and Evil Habits (1787), excerpts -- A. M., 'The Duty of Servants to Masters' and 'The Duty of Masters to Servants', in Moral Essays, Chiefly Collected from Different Authors (1796) -- Anon., Advice to Governesses (1827), excerpts -- Mary Ann Ashford, Life of a Licensed Victualler's Daughter (1844), excerpts -- 'Address to Young Servants', in Tracts on Practical Subjects Addressed to the Working Classes (1860) -- Rose Mary Crawshay, Domestic Service for Gentlewomen (1874), excerpt -- F. E. Reade, Mrs. Smith's Lodgers ([c. 1889]), excerpts -- Émigrés -- Stéphanie-Félicité Genlis, The Young Exiles, or Correspondence of some Juvenile Emigrants (1799), excerpt -- Anon., 'New South Wales, and Van Diemen's Land', Colonial Register and West India Journal (1824) -- Anon., 'A Tale', Jewish Chronicle (1841-2) -- Mary Edwards Weitbrecht, Female Missionaries in India (1843), excerpt -- G. A. Ames, Diary (1850), excerpt.
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