Wives and Daughters: Women and Children in the Georgian Country House - Hardcover

Martin, Joanna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1852852712 ISBN 13: 9781852852719

Publisher: Continnuum-3PL, 2004

Synopsis

Told through the stories, journals and personal letters of the women of the powerful Fox family, Wives and Daughters is a window into the daily lives and experiences of women of eighteenth-century aristocratic society and the country houses that symbolized the power and taste of eighteenth-century Britain. Combining personality with historical setting and detail, Joanna Martin traces the lives of fifteen individual women in their four country houses through several generations, in society and at home. Taking an intimate and personal look at courtship, marriage, childbirth, education, houses and gardens, reading, hobbies, travel and health, this book is an engrossing account of woman's lives in this fascinating time.

About this title

About the Author:

Joanna Martin was brought up in a country house (Penrice Castle in Wales) and is a professional genealogical historian. She is the author of William Fox-Talbot at Penrice and the editor of A Governess in the Age of Jane Austen.

Review:

'Wives and Daughters covers a wide range of domestic subjects, quoting the women's correspondance and journals...Martin discusses in depth country life, servants, households...provid[ing] a gloss on life at Pemberley, Mansfield Park and Kellynch' JASNA News, vol 22 No. 2, Summer 2006 (MArsha Huff)

'Wives and Daughters covers a wide range of domestic subjects, quoting the women's correspondance and journals...Martin discusses in depth country life, servants, households...provid[ing] a gloss on life at Pemberley, Mansfield Park and Kellynch' JASNA News, vol 22 No. 2, Summer 2006 (Sanford Lakoff)

About this edition

• Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1852852712
• ISBN 13: 9781852852719
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 454