Family Life in England and America, 1690–1820, vol 1

Family Life in England and America, 1690–1820, vol 1
Author: Rachel Cope
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2021-12-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000558819

This four-volume collection of primarily newly transcribed manuscript material brings together sources from both sides of the Atlantic and from a wide variety of regional archives. It is the first collection of its kind, allowing comparisons between the development of the family in England and America during a time of significant change. Volume 1: Many Families The eighteenth-century family group was a varied one. Documents attest to religious and racial diversity, as well as the hardships endured by the poor and working classes, such as widows, orphans and those born outside wedlock. Fictive families are also examined alongside more traditional family units bound by blood or law.

Mentoria

Mentoria
Author: Ann Murry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1785
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Gender in Eighteenth-Century England

Gender in Eighteenth-Century England
Author: Hannah Barker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2014-06-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317889126

A new collection of essays which challenges many existing assumptions, particularly the conventional models of separate spheres and economic change. All the essays are specifically written for a student market, making detailed research accessible to a wide readership and the opening chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the subject describing the development of gender history as a whole and the study of eighteenth-century England. This is an exciting collection which is a major revision of the subject.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft
Author: C. Franklin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230510051

This study argues that protestant society had traditionally sanctioned women's role in spreading literacy, but this became politicized in the 1790s. Wollstonecraft's literary vocation was shaped by the expectations of the power of print to educate and reform individuals and society, in the radical circles of the Unitarian publisher Joseph Johnson.