Wives and daughters
Subtitle: women and children in the Georgian country house
By: Joanna Martin.
Publisher: Hambledon and London
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
Subjects: Fox family; Ilchester, Henry Thomas Fox-Strangways, Earl of, 1747-1802 -- Family; Ilchester, Stephen Fox-Strangways, Earl of, 1704-1776 -- Family; Children of the rich -- England -- Wessex -- History -- 18th century; Upper class women -- England -- Wessex -- History -- 18th century; Country homes -- England -- Wessex -- History -- 18th century; Country life -- England -- Wessex -- History -- 18th century; Nobility -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century; Wessex (England) -- Social life and customs; Wessex (England) -- Biography; Wessex (England) -- History
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Wives and Daughters is a portrait of the world of women inside the country houses that symbolised the power and taste of eighteenth-century Britain. If men dominated public life, their wives were responsible for the household, bringing up children, entertaining, employing servants, nursing and dispensing charity. They also kept closely in touch by letter with family news, comments on books, remedies and gardening tips, as well as the latest gossip. The women of the powerful Fox Strangways family, headed by the Whig Earls of Ilchester, have left an exceptional record of their lives in the great Wessex houses, including Redlynch, Melbury, Bowood and Lacock, into which the girls of the family married over several generations." "Wives and Daughters traces the lives of individual women. Courtship, marriage and childbirth, education, houses and gardens, reading, hobbies, travel and health were only some of the women's many interests and preoccupations."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-438) and index.