Wives and daughters

women and children in the Georgian country house

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Author

Joanna Martin

Publication

2004 - Hambledon and London, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

113,500 words, Guess

Page Count

454 pages

Identifiers

Open LibraryOL3322343M
ISBN-101852852712
OCLC Control Number56054381
Library of Congress Control Number2004276470
Goodreads161733

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LibraryThing1892839

Classifications

DDC305.48/9621/0942309033
LCCDA28.35.F69 M37 2004

Description

"Wives and Daughters is a portrait of the world of women inside the country houses that symbolised the power and taste of eighteenth-century Britain. If men dominated public life, their wives were responsible for the household, bringing up children, entertaining, employing servants, nursing and dispensing charity. They also kept closely in touch by letter with family news, comments on books, remedies and gardening tips, as well as the latest gossip. The women of the powerful Fox Strangways family, headed by the Whig Earls of Ilchester, have left an exceptional record of their lives in the great Wessex houses, including Redlynch, Melbury, Bowood and Lacock, into which the girls of the family married over several generations." "Wives and Daughters traces the lives of individual women. Courtship, marriage and childbirth, education, houses and gardens, reading, hobbies, travel and health were only some of the women's many interests and preoccupations."--Jacket.