Family Life in Britain 1650 1910 1st Edition by Carol Beardmore, Cara Dobbing, Steven King ISBN 9783030048549 3030048543

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ISBN 10: 3030048543

ISBN 13: 9783030048549

Author: Carol Beardmore, Cara Dobbing, Steven King

This book explores the ways that families were formed and re-formed, and held together and fractured, in Britain from the sixteenth to twentieth century. The chapters build upon the argument, developed in the 1990s and 2000s, that the nuclear family form, the bedrock of understandings of the structure and function of family and kinship units, provides a wholly inadequate lens through which to view the British family. Instead the volume’s contributors point to families and households with porous boundaries, an endless capacity to reconstitute themselves, and an essential fluidity to both the form of families, and the family and kinship relationships that stood in the background. This book offers a re-reading, and reconsideration of the existing pillars of family history in Britain. It examines areas such as: Scottish kinship patterns, work patterns of kin in Post Office families, stepfamily relations, the role of family in managing lunatic patients, and the fluidity associated with a range of professional families in the nineteenth century. 

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction
2. Family Fortunes: Marriage, Inheritance and Economic Challenges in Scotland c.1660–1800
3. Victorian Professions: The Galvanising (and Shaping) Force of Death on Families
4. “The Widows and Orphans of Servants Are Dying”: The Conflict of Family in the Design and Application of Nineteenth-Century Civil Servant Pensions
5. Step Motherhood in the Nineteenth Century: Elinor Packe and Continuing Family Cohesiveness, 1900–1911
6. Balancing the Family: Edward Wrench, Baslow G.P., c.1862–1890
7. The Family and Insanity: The Experience of the Garlands Asylum, 1862–1910
8. Conceptualising the ‘Perfect’ Family in Late Nineteenth-Century Philanthropic Institutions
9. Negotiating the Blending of Families: Tension and Affection Between Step-Parents and Children in Early Modern England
10. Family Beyond the Household: Constituting and Reconstituting as Kin
11. Configuring and Re-configuring Families in Nineteenth-Century England

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