Family life in Britain, 1650-1910 /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors:	Beardmore, Carol (Editor), Dobbing, Cara (Editor), King, Steven, 1966- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Subjects:	Families > Great Britain > History. Families > Great Britain > History > 16th century. Families > Great Britain > History > 17th century. Families > Great Britain > History > 18th century. Families > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Families > Great Britain > History > 20th century. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Intro; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1 Introduction; Context; The Size and Shape of Co-residential Units; The Extent of Nominal and Fictive Kinship; The Meaning of Family and Kinship; Trends in the Utility of Family and Kinship; Chapter Structure; Part I Economies of the Family; Chapter 2 Family Fortunes: Marriage, Inheritance and Economic Challenges in Scotland c.1660-1800; Overview; Inheritance Laws and Family Property: Fideicommissa, Entails and the Enlightened Attack on 'feudalism'; Public Finances and Family Fortunes
Negotiating Family Interests: Litigation in the Court of Session, Appeals to the House of Lords, and Private Statutes, c.1660-1800Conclusion; Chapter 3 Victorian Professions: The Galvanising (and Shaping) Force of Death on Families; Introduction; The Victorian 'Professional' Family; An Experiential Account of Bereavement in a Professional Family; Declining Fortunes in Nineteenth-Century Dundee; Widows and Spinsters; Conclusion; Chapter 4 "The Widows and Orphans of Servants Are Dying": The Conflict of Family in the Design and Application of Nineteenth-Century Civil Servant Pensions; Overview
Constructing the Post Office FamilyThe Superannuation Debates; The Familial Role in Postal Work; Conclusion; Part II Family Processes; Chapter 5 Step Motherhood in the Nineteenth Century: Elinor Packe and Continuing Family Cohesiveness, 1900-1911; Overview; Sources and Background to the Packe Family; The Packe's and Their Interconnections; Conclusion; Chapter 6 Balancing the Family: Edward Wrench, Baslow G.P., c.1862-1890; Overview; The Baslow Practice; Husband and Wife Working Partnership; Balancing Family Commitments; The Impact of General Practice on Family Life; Conclusion
Chapter 7 The Family and Insanity: The Experience of the Garlands Asylum, 1862-1910Overview; Family as Instigators of Care; Maintenance of Family Ties; Family as the Cause of Insanity; Conclusion; Chapter 8 Conceptualising the 'Perfect' Family in Late Nineteenth-Century Philanthropic Institutions; Overview; The Nineteenth-Century Context; The Experience of the Waifs and Strays Society; Conclusion; Part III Reconstituting the Family; Chapter 9 Negotiating the Blending of Families: Tension and Affection Between Step-Parents and Children in Early Modern England; Overview
The Remarrying Widow-Why Marry Again?Step-Parents and the Law: Stereotype and Reality; Affectionate Bonds in Blended Families; Conclusion; Chapter 10 Family Beyond the Household: Constituting and Reconstituting as Kin; Themes and Context; Reconstructing Genealogies; Cardno and Fraser: Social and Economic Tensions, 1820s-1860s; Kinship in the Long-Term, 1870-1910; Conclusion; Chapter 11 Configuring and Re-configuring Families in Nineteenth-Century England; Overview; Sources; Fluid Families; Beyond the Memorial; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index