The middling sort
Subtitle: commerce, gender, and the family in England, 1680-1780
By: Margaret R. Hunt.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: Middle class -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.; Middle class -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.; Middle class families -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.; Middle class families -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Description: To be one of "the middling sort" in urban England in the late seventeenth or eighteenth century was to live a life tied, in one way or another, to the world of commerce. In a lively study that combines convincing analysis with alternately poignant and hilarious anecdote, Margaret R. Hunt offers an original view of middling society during the hundred years that separated the Glorious Revolution from the factory age.

Thanks to her exploration of a wealth of family papers and court records, Hunt is able to look beyond events - what the new commercial classes did - and examine what they thought, felt, and valued.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-319) and index.