How did the Victorians engage with the ancient world? Victorian Culture and Classical
Antiquity is a brilliant exploration of how the ancient worlds of Greece and Rome influenced …

Parenting in England is the first study of the world of parenting in late Georgian England.
The author, Joanne Bailey, traces ideas about parenthood in a Christian society that was …

A pioneering study of Victorian and Edwardian fatherhood, investigating what being, and
having, a father meant to working-class people. Based on working-class autobiography, the …

I have incurred many debts of gratitude during the course of writing this book and the years
that preceded it. Many years ago, as a school student in the East Midlands, I was fortunate to …

Parenting has a complex but only recently examined history. This article surveys this
scholarship, which is driven by the histories of gender, emotions, medicine, bodies, material …

Aristocratic women flourished in the Victorian literary world, their combination of class
privilege and gendered exclusion generating distinctively socialized modes of participation …

This article examines the work of British widows in the construction of their husbands'
memory following their violent deaths in British India, during the nineteenth and early …

Drawing on working-class autobiographies, this article unpacks working-class authors'
subtle use of domestic spaces in life story narrative to suggest that even small homes could …

Josephine Butler, controversial and pioneering feminist reformer of the late nineteenth
century, never wrote an autobiography, but she articulated self-understandings indirectly …

During a period when the idea of fatherhood was in flux and individual fathers sought to
regain a cohesive collective identity, debates related to a father's authority were negotiated …