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Author Davidoff, Leonore.

Title Family fortunes : men and women of the English middle class, 1780-1850 / Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1987]
©1987

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  HT690.G7 D38 1987    Available  ---
Description 576 pages : illustrations, genealogical table, maps ; 25 cm.
Series Women in culture and society
Women in culture and society.
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 542-559.
Note Includes indexes.
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.
Subject Middle class -- England -- History -- 18th century -- Case studies.
Middle class.
England.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Middle class women -- England -- History -- 18th century -- Case studies.
Middle class women.
Middle class -- England -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Middle class women -- England -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Added Author Hall, Catherine, 1946-
ISBN 0226137325
9780226137322