Claudia Nelson - British Family Life, 1780–1914, Volume 2: Husbands and Fathers

British Family Life, 1780–1914, Volume 2: Husbands and Fathers — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "British Family Life, 1780–1914, Volume 2: Husbands and Fathers" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

1234567...127

BRITISH FAMILY LIFE 1780-1914

CONTENTS OF THE EDITION

VOLUME 1

General Introduction

Growing Up

VOLUME 2

Husbands and Fathers

VOLUME 3

Wives and Mothers

VOLUME 4

Extended Families

VOLUME 5

Substitute Families

Index

BRITISH FAMILY LIFE 1780-1914

GENERAL EDITOR

Claudia Nelson

Volume 2

Husbands and Fathers

Edited by

Julie-Marie Strange

First published 2013 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited

Published 2016 by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

Copyright Taylor & Francis 2013

Copyright Editorial material Julie-Marie Strange 2013

To the best of the Publishers knowledge every effort has been made to contact relevant copyright holders and to clear any relevant copyright issues. Any omissions that come to their attention will be remedied in future editions.

All rights reserved, including those of translation into foreign languages. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the pub lishers.

Notice:

Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

The history of suicide in England, 17801914.

BRITISH LIBRARY CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION DATA

1. Families Great Britain History 19th century Sources. 2. Parenthood Great Britain History 19th century Sources. 3. Parent and child Great Britain History 19th century Sources. 4. Children Great Britain Social conditions 19th century Sources. 5. Families in literature. 6. Parenthood in literature.

I. Nelson, Claudia. II. Strange, Julie-Marie, 1973.

III. Egenolf, Susan B.

362. 8509034-dc23

ISBN-13: 978-1-84893-102-2 (set)

Typeset by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited

DOI: 10.4324/9781003112686

Contents

• • Reverend James Plumptree, Extract from an Account of a Cottage at Shelford, in the County of Cambridge (1802)
  • Anon., The New Guide to Matrimony (1809)
  • Joseph Entwisle, The Family of God (1814)
  • Thomas K. Hyde, Joseph Peters: or, The Negro Slave Emancipated by the Power of the Gospel of the Son of God (1832)
  • H. W. H., How to Choose a Wife (1855)
  • Thomas Legh Claughton, The Duty of Fathers Concerning the Education of their Children (1864)
  • William H. M. H. Aitken, The Love of the Father (1887), excerpts
  • Louisa C. Silke, Bravely Borne (1888), excerpts
• Experiencing Family Life
  • Stephen Morell, The Family Memorial; or A Fathers Tribute to the Memory of Four Children ([c. 1830])
  • Robert Joseph Phillimore, A Report of the Judgment Delivered on the Sixth Day of June, 1835, by Joseph Phillimore ... in the Cause of Belcher, the Wife, Against Belcher, the Husband (1835), excerpts
  • Ladyfern [Mary Frances Dundas], The Family Man, Barnacle (1863)
  • Kelly v. Kelly, The Law Reports. Courts of Probate and Divorce (1869)
  • Nicholas Heald Letters (187087)
• Threats and Anxieties
  • Frederick Fitz-Whankee (pseud.), Broomstick Wedding (1832)
  • [Robert Ainslie], The Rod and its Uses, or Thomas Dodd and Bill Collins (1865), excerpts
  • James McCurrey, The Life of James McCurrey (1876), excerpts
  • Josephine Butler, A Grave Question that Needs Answering by the Churches of Great Britain (1886)
  • Lee Jones, League of Welldoers (aka The Food and Betterment Association), The Walker Fund (1890s1910), excerpts
  • Charles V. Drysdale, Neo-Malthusianism and Eugenics (1912)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Some contents of this volume exist in manuscript form; permission for their appearance here is much appreciated. The Family Man is transcribed from the manuscript magazine the Barnacle and reproduced by kind permission of the Fellows and Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. The Nicholas Heald letters are reproduced by courtesy of the University Librarian and Director, The John Rylands Library, the University of Manchester. The Walker Fund material is reprinted with kind permission of Liverpool Record Office, Liverpool Libraries. Thank you to co-editors, Claudia Nelson and Susan Egenolf, for being superb to work with, generous with time and ideas, and supremely supportive. The generous advice of Harry Cocks, Sarah Toulalan, Hannah Barker, George Dent and Richard Clark is much appreciated. For assistance with transcription of manuscripts, grateful thanks to Catherine Feely and Jordan Fontenot. Any errors or omissions are, of course, my own.

INTRODUCTION

In 1994, the historian John Tosh published an essay that asked, What should historians do with masculinity? Men were everywhere in the nineteenth century because they were the norm against which women and children were defined. And yet, the sheer normative status of men led to what Tosh called a profound dualism; masculinity was everywhere but nowhere. Masculinity was constituted through a web of cultural attributes, status and power, but the meanings attached to husband and, especially, father identities had barely been addressed.1

The power of men as husbands and fathers in the long nineteenth century is indisputable. From the late eighteenth century, masculine power in family and household was inscribed by economic and legal structures, and underwritten by appeal to Divine law that identified God the father as head of a Christian family and temporal fathers as his deputies. Yet, as Trev Broughton and Helen Rogers observed in 2007, the economic, legal and spiritual authority of men over families was increasingly challenged during the Victorian and Edwardian period and, in any case, did not reflect the micropolitics of everyday life.2 This volume introduces a range of materials that demonstrate the relationship between the ideals of masculinity alongside the legal and economic authority invested in male heads of household and the micropolitics of everyday life.

In nineteenth-century ideological texts, womanhood was often synonymous with motherhood. Masculine identities retained a degree of independence from roles as husbands and fathers, but most young bachelors were advised on the selection of a wife while becoming a husband usually conferred an expectation of fatherhood. Likewise, the rights of fathers were contingent on the legal status of marriage, and male desertion of a woman and child could result in prosecution if sufficient evidence were available. Historical studies of family life have closely aligned husbands with fathers. In particular, analyses of family relations from the perspectives of womens and gender history emphasized the experiences of women and children living under the law of patriarchal authority. At marriage, under the law of coverture, wives became one with their husbands, but it was an unequal union because fathers held supreme authority over the unit. As Ben Griffin has demonstrated in his study

Next page

1234567...127

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «British Family Life, 1780–1914, Volume 2: Husbands and Fathers»

Look at similar books to British Family Life, 1780–1914, Volume 2: Husbands and Fathers. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.

Elisabetta Ruspini

Diversity in Family Life: Gender, Relationships and Social Change

Unknown

Women and Radicalism in the Nineteenth Century (Subcultures and Subversions : 1750-1850)

Mike Sanders

Women and Radicalism in the Nineteenth Century

Geoffrey Crossick

The Petite Bourgeoisie in Europe 1780-1914: Enterprise, Family and Independence

Paul Lawrence

The Making of the Modern Police, 1780–1914, Part I Vol 2

Richard J. Evans

The German Family (Routledge Revivals): Essays on the Social History of the Family in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Germany

Colin Creighton

Gender, Family and Work in Tanzania

Herson John

Divergent Paths: Family Histories of Irish Emigrants in Britain, 1820-1920

Martin Polley (editor)

The History of Sport in Britain, 1880-1914

Joachim Eibach

The Routledge History of the Domestic Sphere in Europe: 16th to 19th Century

Berit Brandth

Work–Family Dynamics: Competing Logics of Regulation, Economy and Morals

Luis Martinez-Fernandez

Fighting Slavery in the Caribbean: Life and Times of a British Family in Nineteenth Century Havana

Discussion, reviews of the book British Family Life, 1780–1914, Volume 2: Husbands and Fathers and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.