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Tables of Contents for Family Fortunes
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction
xiii
Prologue
13
23
Introducing James Luckcock of Birmingham
What was the English middle class?
Concepts and methods
Setting the scene
36
35
Places:
The town - Birmingham
The countryside - Essex and Suffolk
People:
The family shop - the Cadburys of Birmingham
The family pen - the Taylors of Essex
Part One RELIGION AND IDEOLOGY
71
122
Introduction
73
120
1 'The one thing needful': religion and the middle class
76
31
Church and chapel activity
The Evangelical revival and serious Christianity
Church against Dissent
The religious community
2 'Ye are all one in Christ Jesus': men, women and religion
107
42
Doctrines on manliness
Doctrines on femininity
The ministry
The minister's wife
John Angell James: 'bishop' of Birmingham
Church organization: women voting and women speaking
Laymen and women
3 'The nursery of virtue': domestic ideology and the middle class
149
46
The Queen Caroline affair
Middle-class readers and writers
William Cowper and Hannah More
Local writers on separate spheres
Domestic ideologies of the 1830's and 1840's
Part Two ECONOMIC STRUCTURE AND OPPORTUNITY
193
124
Introduction
195
122
4 'A modest competency': men, women and property
198
31
Enterprise organization
Land and capital
Enterprise finance
Providing for dependants
The interdependence of enterprise, family and friends
The role of marriage in the enterprise
Training for the enterprise
Retirement from the enterprise
5 'A man must act': men and the enterprise
229
43
Middle-class men and occupations
The search for a 'sound commercial education'
Commerce and trade
Banks and banking
Manufacture
Farming
The professions
The salaried
6 'The hidden investment': women and the enterprise
272
47
Women and property
Women's contribution to the enterprise
The education of women and its effects
Women as teachers
Women as innkeepers
Women in trade
The marginal place of women in the economy
Women, men and occupation identity
How did women survive?
Part Three EVERYDAY LIFE: GENDER IN ACTION
317
133
Introduction
319
97
7 'Our family is a little world': family structure and relationships
321
36
The role of marriage in family formation
Fatherhood
Motherhood
Children
Brothers and sisters
The role of wider kin
8 'My own fireside': the creation of the middle-class home
357
40
What was a home?
The separation of home from work
The meaning of the garden
The lay-out of the home
Running the home
The question of servants
9 'Lofty pine and clinging vine': living with gender in the middle class
397
19
Manner and gentility
Changing attitudes to sexuality
Mobility and gender
Gender and the social occasion
Gender as appearance
10 'Improving times': men, women and the public sphere
416
39
James Bisset of Birmingham
Voluntary associations
Philanthropic societies
Leisure and pleasure
Men, women and citizenship
Epilogue
450
5
Appendices
1 Three poems by local authors
2 Sources for the local study
3 Tables
455
15
Notes and references
470
72
Select bibliography
542
18
People index
560
6
Subject index
566