Family fortunes : [electronic resource] men and women of the English middle class, 1780-1850 / Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall.
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TextSeries: Women in culture and societyPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1987.Description: 576 p. : ill., geneal. table, maps ; 25 cmISBN: - 0226137325
- 9780226137322
- Middle class -- England -- History -- 18th century -- Case studies
- Middle class women -- England -- History -- 18th century -- Case studies
- Middle class -- England -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies
- Middle class women -- England -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies
- Clase media -- Gran Bretaña -- Historia -- Siglo XIX
- Classes moyennes -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 18e siècle -- Cas, Études de
- Femmes de la classe moyenne -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 18e siècle -- Cas, Études de
- Classes moyennes -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 19e siècle -- Cas, Études de
- Femmes de la classe moyenne -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 19e siècle -- Cas, Études de
- Geschichte 1780-1850
- Mittelstand
- Mann
- Frau
- Großbritannien
- 305.5/5/0942 19
- HT690.G7 D38 1987
Bibliography: p. [542]-559.
Includes indexes.
'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.
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