Family fortunes
Subtitle: men and women of the English middle class, 1780-1850
By: Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall.
Contributors: Hall, Catherine, 1946-
Series: Women in culture and society
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780226137322
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes indexes.

Bibliography: p. [542]-559.

Table of contents: title: 'The one thing needful' : religion and the middle class; title: 'Ye are all one in Christ Jesus' : men, women and religion; title: 'The nursery of virtue' : domestic ideology and the middle class; title: 'A modest competency' : men, women and property; title: 'A man must act' : men and the enterprise; title: 'The hidden investment' : women and the enterprise; title: 'Our family is a little world' : family structure and relationships; title: 'My own fireside' : the creation of the middle-class home; title: 'Lofty pine and clinging vine' : living with gender in the middle class; title: 'Improving times' : men, women and the public sphere.