Family Life in Britain, 1650–1910. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Carol Beardmore, Cara Dobbing, Steven King.
• Editors: Beardmore, Carol; Dobbing, Cara; King, Steven
• Contents: Chapter One: Introduction; Carol Beardmore, Cara Dobbing, Steven King.- Part One: Economies of the Family.- Chapter Two: Family Fortunes: Marriage, Inheritance and Economic Challenges in Scotland, c.1660-1800; Regina Poertner.- Chapter Three: Victorian Professions: the Galvanising (and Shaping) Force of Death on Families; Kim Price.- Chapter Four: 'The Widows and Orphans of Servants are Dying': The Conflict of Family in the Design and Application of nineteenth-Century Civil Servant Pensions; Kathleen McIlvenna.- Part Two: Family Processes.- Chapter Five: Step Motherhood in the Nineteenth Century: Elinor Packe and Continuing Family Cohesiveness, 1900-1911; Geoff Monks.- Chapter Six: Balancing the Family: Edward Wrench, Baslow G.P. c.1862–1890; Carol Beardmore.- Chapter Seven: The Family and Insanity: The Experience of the Garlands Asylum, 1862-1910; Cara Dobbing.- Chapter Eight: Conceptualising the 'Perfect' Family in Late-Nineteenth-Century Philanthropic Institutions; Steven Taylor.- Part Three: Reconstituting the Family.- Chapter Nine: Negotiating the Blending of Families: Tension and Affection between Step-Parents and Children in Early Modern England, 1470-1640; Maria Cannon.- Chapter Ten: Family Beyond the Household: Constituting and Reconstituting as Kin; Iain Riddell.- Chapter Eleven: Configuring and Re-Configuring Families in Nineteenth-Century England; Steven King.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (292 pages)
• Subjects: History; Social history; History -- Europe -- Great Britain; History -- Europe -- General; Social Science -- Sociology -- Marriage & Family; British & Irish history; European history; Sociology: family & relationships; History -- Social History; Social & cultural history; Great Britain-History; Europe-History-1492-
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030048556
• Related ISBNs: 9783030048549
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