Sisterly guidance: elite women, sorority and the life cycle, 1770–1860 ; Women and the Country House in Ireland and Britain

Book chapter


Larsen, Ruth M. and Larsen, R. 2018. Sisterly guidance: elite women, sorority and the life cycle, 1770–1860 ; Women and the Country House in Ireland and Britain. in: Four Courts Press.
AuthorsLarsen, Ruth M. and Larsen, R.
Abstract

This volume of essays examines the lives of women in country houses in Ireland and Britain from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century. The authors present a spectrum of female house owners, residents and caretakers who were far more than bit players in the histories of families and big houses. The women featuring in these essays were all agents in their own destinies, taking charge of their lives (as much as was possible within a repressive society), as well as influencing the lives of others. They were committed to organizing households, supervising architects and builders, raising families, mobilizing political support, acquiring culinary expertise, assisting husbands or sons, writing fiction, travelling overseas, and, in one instance, undoing a late husband’s work. Drawing from a wide range of archival sources and family papers, this collection goes some way towards answering the question: ‘what did they do?’, and demonstrates the many roles women played in the appearance and running of family estates. ; University of Derby

KeywordsAristocracy; history; gender
Year2018
PublisherFour Courts Press
ISBN9781846826474
Web address (URL)http://hdl.handle.net/10545/624366
File
File Access Level
Open
Publication dates2018
Publication process dates
Deposited09 Jan 2020, 11:21
Accepted2016
ContributorsUniversity of Derby
Permalink -

https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/93408/sisterly-guidance-elite-women-sorority-and-the-life-cycle-1770-1860-women-and-the-country-house-in-ireland-and-britain

Download files


File
license.txt
File access level: Open

  • 46
    total views
  • 0
    total downloads
  • 0
    views this month
  • 0
    downloads this month

Export as

Related outputs

A Transformative Learning Experience: An Undergraduate Research Conference as Authentic Assessment
Larsen, R., Sims, R. and Whitehead, I. 2024. A Transformative Learning Experience: An Undergraduate Research Conference as Authentic Assessment. Practitioner Research in Higher Education. pp. 49-60.
Gender and Home
Larsen, R. 2021. Gender and Home. in: Edwards, C. (ed.) A Cultural History of the Home in the Age of Enlightenment, Volume 4 London Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 131-154
An archaeology of letter writing: the correspondence of aristocratic women in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England
Larsen, Ruth M. and Larsen, R. 2020. An archaeology of letter writing: the correspondence of aristocratic women in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England. in: Liverpool University Press.
Popular experience and cultural representation of the Great War, 1914-1918
Larsen, Ruth M. and Whitehead, Ian 2017. Popular experience and cultural representation of the Great War, 1914-1918. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Archbishop Thomson's visitation returns for the diocese of York, 1865
Larsen, Ruth M. and Royle, Edward 2006. Archbishop Thomson's visitation returns for the diocese of York, 1865. Borthwick Institute.
"In small things forgotten": finding women in the Archbishop of York's Visitation Returns of 1865
Larsen, Ruth M. 2008. "In small things forgotten": finding women in the Archbishop of York's Visitation Returns of 1865. Yorkshire Archaeological Journal.
Contexts, identities and consumption: Britain 1688-1815
Larsen, Ruth M. 2009. Contexts, identities and consumption: Britain 1688-1815. in: Continuum.