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Siblinghood and Social Relations in Georgian England: Share and Share Alike

Siblinghood and Social Relations in Georgian England: Share and Share Alike

Harris, Amy

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General European HistoryGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0719087376
ISBN13: 9780719087370
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Aug 18 2012
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

This book examines the impact sisters and brothers had on eighteenth-century English families and society. Using evidence from letters, diaries, probate disputes, court transcripts, prescriptive literature and portraiture, it argues that although parents' wills often recommended their children 'share and share alike', siblings had to constantly negotiate between prescribed equality and practiced inequalities.

Siblinghood and social relations in Georgian England, which will be the first monograph-length analysis of early modern siblings in England, is primed to be at the forefront of sibling studies. The book is intended for a broad audience of scholars - particularly those interested in families, women, children and eighteenth-century social and cultural history.

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