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.
Tabella dei contenuti
Introduction
1. Learning to be a sibling
2. Ties that bound
3. Ties that cut
4. Sibling economics
5. Sibling politics
Conclusion
Appendix one: Tables
Appendix two: Family trees
Select bibliography
Index
Circa l’autore
Amy Harris is Assistant Professor of History at the Brigham Young University
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