Family secrets
Subtitle: living with shame from the Victorians to the present day
By: Deborah Cohen
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9780670917662; 9780141959573
Subjects: Family secrets; Families; History; Family; Privacy; Illegitimacy; Homosexuality; Disabled Persons; Family and Relationships; Schandalen; Geheimen; Familjer; Historia; Skamkänslor; Skuldkänslor
Description: 'Family Secrets' offers a sweeping account of what families hid in the past, and why. Both a story of keeping secrets and how they were revealed, it journeys from the frontier of empire and the families of British adventurers to the wood-panelled chambers of the divorce court, where a family's disgrace was dissected for public view.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-353) and index.

Self-Renewing 2017
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part one: Telling secrets (1. Nabob's secrets ; 2. Revelation in the Divorce Court); title: Part two: Shame and guilt, nature and nurture (3. Children who disappeared ; 4. Other people's bastards ; 5. Bachelor uncles); title: Part three: Secret no more? (6. Talking it out ; 7. Repressive family); title: Epilogue: Genealogy and confessonal culture.