Being Single in Georgian England

Being Single in Georgian England

Author: Amy Harris

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2023-07-04

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0192696378

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Being Single in Georgian England is the first book-length exploration of what family life looked like, and how it was experienced, when viewed from the perspective of unmarried and childless family members. Using a micro-historical approach, Amy Harris covers three generations of the famous musical and abolitionist Sharp family. The abundance of records the Sharps produced and preserved reveals how single family members influenced the household economy, marital decisions, childrearing practices, and conceptions about lineage and genealogy. The Sharps' exceptional closeness and good humor consistently shines through as their experiences reveal how eighteenth-century families navigated gender and age hierarchies, marital choices, and household governance. The importance of childhood relationships and the life-long nature of siblinghood stand out as central aspects of Sharp family life, no matter their marital status. Along the way, Being Single explores humor, music, religious practice and belief, death and mourning, infertility, disability, slavery, abolition, philanthropy, and family memory. The Sharps' experiences uncover how important lateral kin like siblings and cousins were to marital and household decisions. The analysis also reveals additional layers of Georgian family life, including: single sociability not centered on courtship; the importance of aunting and uncling on their own terms; the ways charitable acts and philanthropic endeavors could serve as outlets or partial replacements for parenthood; and how genealogical practices could be tied to values and identity instead of to biological descendants' possession of property. Ultimately, the Sharp siblings' remarkable lives and the single family members' efforts to preserve a record of those lives, show the enduring contribution of unmarried people to family relationships and household dynamics.


Being Single in Georgian England

Being Single in Georgian England

Author: Amy Harris

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2023-08-03

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0192869493

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Being Single in Georgian England is the first book-length exploration of what family life looked like, and how it was experienced, when viewed from the perspective of unmarried and childless family members. Using a micro-historical approach, Amy Harris covers three generations of the famous musical and abolitionist Sharp family. The abundance of records the Sharps produced and preserved reveals how single family members influenced the household economy, marital decisions, childrearing practices, and conceptions about lineage and genealogy. The Sharps' exceptional closeness and good humor consistently shines through as their experiences reveal how eighteenth-century families navigated gender and age hierarchies, marital choices, and household governance. The importance of childhood relationships and the life-long nature of siblinghood stand out as central aspects of Sharp family life, no matter their marital status. Along the way, Being Single explores humor, music, religious practice and belief, death and mourning, infertility, disability, slavery, abolition, philanthropy, and family memory. The Sharps' experiences uncover how important lateral kin like siblings and cousins were to marital and household decisions. The analysis also reveals additional layers of Georgian family life, including: single sociability not centered on courtship; the importance of aunting and uncling on their own terms; the ways charitable acts and philanthropic endeavors could serve as outlets or partial replacements for parenthood; and how genealogical practices could be tied to values and identity instead of to biological descendants' possession of property. Ultimately, the Sharp siblings' remarkable lives and the single family members' efforts to preserve a record of those lives, show the enduring contribution of unmarried people to family relationships and household dynamics.


Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen

Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen

Author: Rory Muir

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2024-01-01

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 0300269609

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What happened when Jane Austen's heroines and heroes were finally wed? Marriage is at the centre of Jane Austen's novels. The pursuit of husbands and wives, advantageous matches, and, of course, love itself, motivate her characters and continue to fascinate readers today. But what were love and marriage like in reality for ladies and gentlemen in Regency England? Rory Muir uncovers the excitements and disappointments of courtship and the pains and pleasures of marriage, drawing on fascinating first-hand accounts as well as novels of the period. From the glamour of the ballroom to the pressures of careers, children, managing money, and difficult in-laws, love and marriage came in many guises: some wed happily, some dared to elope, and other relationships ended with acrimony, adultery, domestic abuse, or divorce. Muir illuminates the position of both men and women in marriage, as well as those spinsters and bachelors who chose not to marry at all. This is a richly textured account of how love and marriage felt for people at the time--revealing their unspoken assumptions, fears, pleasures, and delights.


An Affectionate Heart

An Affectionate Heart

Author: Heather Moll

Publisher:

Published: 2022-04

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781735186658

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Can love and affection overcome the pain of grief and anger?In the spring of 1812, Elizabeth Bennet struggles with being a dependent sister. She and Lydia are the only Bennet girls still unmarried since the death of their father. Elizabeth's health and spirits worsen as she moves between living with Jane's family and with Mary and Mr Collins at Longbourn. After a stay with Jane, who married a friend of the Gardiners at fifteen, Elizabeth returns to Meryton to learn that the neighbourhood gossip centres on the reclusive Mr Darcy.Darcy and his sister are living an isolated life in a small lodge near Netherfield after the events at Ramsgate. Their family and friends think them in a warmer climate and the people of Meryton know nothing about them at all. Georgiana's health is failing and Darcy has his own regrets and anger to bear. He tries to keep them secluded, but a young woman arrives who is determined to befriend his lonely, ill sister.When Elizabeth receives disastrous news, she makes a daring plan to find happiness for herself while she still can. Misunderstandings and secrets abound for them both, but Darcy and Elizabeth will find greater strength together than they ever had apart.


The Single Homemaker and Material Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century

The Single Homemaker and Material Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century

Author: David Hussey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-03

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1317015991

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The Single Homemaker and Material Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century represents a new synthesis of gender history and material culture studies. It seeks to analyse the lives and cultural expression of single men and women from 1650 to 1850 within the main focus of domestic activity, the home. Whilst there is much scholarly interest in singleness and a raft of literature on the construction and apprehension of the home, no other book has sought to bring these discrete studies together. Similarly, scholarly work has been limited in evaluating gendered consumption practices during the long eighteenth century because of an emphasis on the homes of families. Analysing the practices of single people emphasises the differences, but also amplifies the similarities, in their strategies of domestic life.


Being Single in the Church Today

Being Single in the Church Today

Author: Philip Wilson

Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2005-11-01

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0819229733

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The model of the nuclear family unit, once the norm, is now only one of many different forms of family. Fifty percent of the population in the US right now is single. In this original and readable book, Philip Watson examines the phenomenon of singleness in contemporary society and its implications for ministry. Wilson traces the history of the church's attitudes towards marriage and sexuality, from the early Church Fathers through the Reformation. In a series of direct interviews he probes how single people today feel within their church communities. His findings reveal that the vast majority of those questioned feel they are something of an embarrassing anomaly in communities that continue to prize marriage. Finally, Wilson begins to develop a framework for a more nuanced approach to the subject of sexuality and relationships, and suggests ways in which the church, as primarily a community of love, can become the best forum in which single life can be discussed, articulated, assisted, and faithfully lived out.


Everything Connects

Everything Connects

Author: Richard Henry Popkin

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 9789004110984

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Richard H. Popkin has already been celebrated in two Festschriften as one of the century's greatest historians of philosophy.This latest book, whose editors were among those who prepared the first two volumes, centers on Popkin's crucial role in bringing together scholars from around the world in a long series of academic conferences and learned meetings which helped transform the field from one of solitary endeavour into a 'Republic of Letters'.Publications by Richard H. Popkin: Isaac la Peyrère (1596-1676): His Life, Work and Influence, ISBN: 978 90 04 08157 4 Edited by Y. Kaplan, H. Méchoulan and R.H. Popkin, Menasseh ben Israel and his World, ISBN: 978 90 04 09114 6 Third Force in Seventeenth-Century Thought, ISBN: 978 90 04 09324 9 Martin I.J. Griffin Jr. Annotated by Richard H. Popkin. Edited by Lila Freedman, Latitudinarianism in the Seventeenth-Century Church of England, ISBN: 978 90 04 09653 0 Edited by Richard H. Popkin and Arjo Vanderjagt, Scepticism and Irreligion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, ISBN: 978 90 04 09596 0 Edited by Martin Mulsow and Richard H. Popkin, Latitudinarianism in the Seventeenth-Century Church of England, ISBN: 978 90 04 12883 5 Edited by R.H. Popkin, Millenarianism and Messianism in English Literature and Thought 1650-1800, ISBN: 978 90 04 08513 8 (Out of print)


The Church of England 1688-1832

The Church of England 1688-1832

Author: Dr William Gibson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-10-12

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 113455205X

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A wide ranging new history of a key period in the history of the church in England, from the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688-89 to the Great Reform Act of 1832. This was a tumultuous time for both church and state, when the relationship between religion and politics was at its most fraught. This book presents evidence of the widespread Anglican commitment to harmony between those of differing religious views and suggests that High and Low Churchmanship was less divergent than usually assumed.


Summary of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice by Milkyway Media

Summary of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice by Milkyway Media

Author: Milkyway Media

Publisher: Milkyway Media

Published: 2019-09-08

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13:

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Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen is a novel about marriage and love in a small English village during the Georgian era. Word has spread among the residents that a wealthy, unmarried man has rented the manor Netherfield Park… Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.


Shakespeare's Early Readers

Shakespeare's Early Readers

Author: Jean-Christophe Mayer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-09-06

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1107138337

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This is the first dedicated account of the ways in which Shakespeare's texts were read in the two centuries after they were produced. A close examination of rare, often unpublished material offers a reconsideration of the role of readers in the history of Shakespeare's rise to fame.