'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.