Siblinghood and Social Relations in Georgian England

Amy Harris

Manchester University Press, 2012

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This book examines the impact siblings had on eighteenth-century English families and society. Using evidence from letters, diaries, probate disputes, court transcripts, prescriptive literature, and portraiture it argues that siblings had to constantly negotiate between prescribed equality and practiced inequalities. -- .

ISBN-13
9780719087370
ISBN-10
0719087376
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
2012
Publication date
2012-08-18
Pages
224
Dimensions
223x144x22
Weight
380