ISBN:
9781137002815
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (219 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.31094200000001
Keywords:
Men--England--History
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This edited collection of correspondence written by members of English landed gentry families provides insights into the formation, experience and practice of elite masculine identities. The source book examines continuities and changes in such processes within the male life cycle and across the early modern and modern periods.
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Biographies of Principal Correspondents -- Introduction -- The Letters -- Personal Sources and the History of Masculinity -- Masculinity and the Landed Gentry -- Letter Writing in History -- Notes on Language and Organisation -- 1 Schooling -- Educational and Extracurricular Accomplishments -- 1.1 John Saunders, Schoolmaster, to Richard Coffi n, 19 November 1691 -- 1.2 John Coffi n, to his mother, Ann Coffi n, No Date, c. 1694 -- 1.3 Patrick St Clair, Clergyman and tutor of William Windham, to Ashe Windham, of Felbrigg, Norfolk, 21 July 1729 -- 1.4 Mary Theresa Weld to her son, Edward Weld, 31 December 1751 -- 1.5 Edward Weld Sr in Lulworth, Dorset, to his son, Edward Weld, 24 September 1757 -- 1.6 Edward Weld, Hart Street, Bloomsbury, London, to his son, John Weld, 27 January 1758 -- 1.7 Edward Church, Liège, to Edward Weld Jr, Lulworth, Dorset, 8 April 1760 -- 1.8 Richard Huddlestone, Sawston, Cambridgeshire, to his elder brother, Ferdinand Huddlestone, 2 July 1784 -- 1.9 Henry Huddlestone, Bornheim, Belgium, to his mother, Mary Huddle stone, Sawston, Cambridgeshire, 28 January 1788 -- 1.10 William Woolcombe, Edinburgh, to his younger brother, Henry Woolcombe, Plymouth, 12 August 1794. -- 1.11 Sir Thomas Dyke Acland 10th Baronet to his son, Thomas Dyke Acland, 11th Baronet, Harrow School, 17 May 1826 -- 1.12 Henry Hoare to his nephew, Thomas Dyke Acland, Harrow School, 18 May 1826 -- 1.13 John Couch Adams, St John's College, Cambridge University, to his brother, Thomas, 12 August 1840 -- Estimates of Character and Role Models -- 1.14 Samuel Burton, tutor, to Humphrey Prideaux, 24 February 1692 -- 1.15 Rev. John Lister, to an unnamed correspondent 1746-7 -- 1.16 Rev. John Lister, Bury, to his brother, Samuel Lister, Shibden Hall, 7 September 1747.
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