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1 online resource (xvii, 308 pages) : illustrations, map |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Note |
Cover title: Love & toil. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-299) and index. |
Contents |
A NOTE ON ENGLISH AND AMERICAN CURRENCY AND USAGE; ABBREVIATIONS; TABLES; INTRODUCTION "The Other History": Motherhood; 1. "Miss, I Wish I Had Your Life": The Poor of London and Their Chroniclers; 2. "There Is Meat Ye Know Not Of": Feeding a Family; 3. "A Gamble You Have to Take": Marriage; 4. "What Is Fated Must Be": Having Babies; 5. "I'll Bring 'Em Up in My Way": Child Rearing; 6. "She Fought for Me like a Tigress": Sickness and Health; 7. "The Value of Babies": Transforming Motherhood, 1900-1918; CONCLUSION: Rediscovering Motherhood; NOTES; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX. |
Summary |
The history of the British working class has until recently been written with a focus on the workplace or on such male organizations as clubs, unions or national political parties. This study of mothers in London before World War I stresses the distinctiveness of their experiences from those of other classes, and of the post World War I period, and demonstrates the ways in which mothers and their domestic choices were essential to the survival and cultural perpetuation of the working classes. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Motherhood -- England -- London -- History.
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Motherhood. |
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England -- London. |
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History. |
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Poor -- England -- London -- History.
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Poor. |
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Working class -- England -- London -- History.
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Working class. |
Indexed Term |
Mothers History |
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London (England) |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Subject |
Motherhood. |
Added Title |
Love & toil |
Other Form: |
Print version: Ross, Ellen. Love and toil. New York : Oxford University Press, 1993 0195039572 (DLC) 92040849 (OCoLC)27035006 |
ISBN |
1423738411 (electronic book) |
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9781423738411 (electronic book) |
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0585334129 (electronic book) |
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9780585334127 (electronic book) |
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9780195083217 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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0195083210 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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1601295987 |
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9781601295989 |
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9780195039573 (Cloth) |
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0195039572 (Cloth) |
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0195039572 (acid-free paper) |
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0195083210 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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1280439408 |
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9781280439407 |
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