This book examines the impact sisters and brothers had on eighteenth-century English families and society. Using evidence from letters, diaries, probate disputes, court transcripts, prescriptive literature and portraiture, it argues that although parents’ wills often recommended their children 'share and share alike', siblings had to constantly negotiate between prescribed equality and practiced inequalities. Siblinghood and social relations in Georgian England, which will be the first monograph-length analysis of early modern siblings in England, is primed to be at the forefront of sibling studies. The book is intended for a broad audience of scholars – particularly those interested in families, women, children and eighteenth-century social and cultural history.

Siblinghood and social relations in Georgian England: Share and share alike

History

Harris, Amy

Europe

Manchester University Press

<p>This four-volume collection of primarily newly transcribed manuscript material brings together sources from both sides of the Atlantic and from a wide variety of regional archives. It is the first collection of its kind, allowing comparisons between the development of the family in England and America during a time of significant change.</p>

Family Life in England and America, 1690–1820, vol 1: Volume 1 Many Families (Routledge Historical Resources)

Cope, Rachel

Hinckley, Jane

Americas

Routledge

This four-volume collection of primarily newly transcribed manuscript material brings together sources from both sides of the Atlantic and from a wide variety of regional archives. It is the first collection of its kind, allowing comparisons between the development of the family in England and America during a time of significant change.

Family Life in England and America, 1690–1820, vol 2 (Routledge Historical Resources)

Family Life in England and America, 1690–1820, vol 3 (Routledge Historical Resources)

Family Life in England and America, 1690–1820, vol 4 (Routledge Historical Resources)

Transmission: An Anthology on Consciousness, Dreaming and Heart

Self-Help

Alfero, Teo

Douglas, Janet

Ziegner, Jen

Routhier, Nicholette

Heller, Lauren Jane

Menack, Stefanie

Cirello, Wendy

Kinney, Erin

Personal Transformation

Ink Heart Press

This book examines the impact sisters and brothers had on eighteenth-century English families and society. Using evidence from letters, diaries, probate disputes, court transcripts, prescriptive literature and portraiture, it argues that although parents' wills often recommended their children 'share and share alike', siblings had to constantly negotiate between prescribed equality and practiced inequalities. Siblinghood and social relations in Georgian England, which will be the first monograph-length analysis of early modern siblings in England, is primed to be at the forefront of sibling studies. The book is intended for a broad audience of scholars - particularly those interested in families, women, children and eighteenth-century social and cultural history.

Family Life in England and America, 1690-1820

Parenting & Relationships

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