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Wives and Daughters - Women and Children in the Georgian Country House (Hardcover)
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Wives and Daughters - Women and Children in the Georgian Country House (Hardcover)
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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 news of family,
comments on books, remedies and gardening tips, as well as the
latest gossip. The women of the powerful Fox 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.
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