Family
Seminar Questions
- How pervasive was the concept and structure of the middle-class family in the nineteenth century?
- Using the Ashford or Gorbals or Sandyford data consider typical household and family sizes and structure.
Key Reading
Leanore Davidoff, 'The Family in Britain' in F. M. L. Thompson (ed.), The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750-1950, Volume 2, pp. 71-129
British History and the Census [Data for the Gorbals 
1851 and 1881, Sandyford 1851 and 1881]
Household Composition Form [to help you analyse types of households and families]
Further Reading
Michael Anderson, Family Structure in Nineteenth-Century Lancashire
J. Burnett (ed.), Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family from the 1820s to the 1920s
Karen Chase and Michael Levenson, The spectacle of intimacy : a public life for the Victorian family
Shani D'Cruze, 'The Family', in Chris Williams (ed.), Companion to Nineteenth-century Britain
Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall, Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850
Llewellyn Davies, Life as We Have Known It
Anna Davin, Growing up Poor: Home, house and street in London
Carol Dyhouse, Feminism and the Family in England, 1880-1939
Carol Dyhouse, Girls Growing Up in Late-Victorian and Edwardian England
Eilidh Garrett, Alice Reid, Kevin Schürer and Simon Szreter, Changing family size in England and Wales: place, class and demography 1891–1911
Eleanor Gordon and Gwyneth Nair, Public lives : women, family and society in Victorian Britain
Jane Lewis (ed.), Labour and Love: Women's Experience of Home and Family
Maud Pember Reeves, Round About a Pound a Week
Rita Rhodes, Women and the Family in Post-Famine Ireland, chs. 3, 5
John Tosh, A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian Britain
Anthony Wohl, (ed) The Victorian Family: Structures and Stresses
Further Data:
