Family fortunes : men and women of the English middle class, 1780-1850 /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1987.
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Series: | Women in culture and society
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Table of Contents:
- 'The one thing needful' : religion and the middle class
- 'Ye are all one in Christ Jesus' : men, women and religion
- 'The nursery of virtue' : domestic ideology and the middle class
- 'A modest competency' : men, women and property
- 'A man must act' : men and the enterprise
- 'The hidden investment' : women and the enterprise
- 'Our family is a little world' : family structure and relationships
- 'My own fireside' : the creation of the middle-class home
- 'Lofty pine and clinging vine' : living with gender in the middle class
- 'Improving times' : men, women and the public sphere.