Clean Clothes
Rosalind Mitchison, 17 March 1988
Scottish Lifestyle 300 Years Ago
by Helen Kelsall and Keith Kelsall.
John Donald, 224 pp., £10, September 1986,0 85976 167 3 Show More
by Helen Kelsall and Keith Kelsall.
John Donald, 224 pp., £10, September 1986,
Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850
by Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall.
Hutchinson, 576 pp., £25, April 1987,0 09 164700 2 Show More
by Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall.
Hutchinson, 576 pp., £25, April 1987,
A Lasting Relationship: Parents and Children over Three Centuries
by Linda Pollock.
Fourth Estate, 319 pp., £14.95, April 1987,0 947795 25 1 Show More
by Linda Pollock.
Fourth Estate, 319 pp., £14.95, April 1987,
“... The Kelsalls and Davidoff and Hall are worker pairs who have been looking into the family life of a restricted group over a halfcentury or so, using a wide range of the documentation generated by their subjects. Both groups studied were experiencing insecurity. The Scottish families were of landed class, made insecure by sudden changes in politics and in the control and policy of the Church; the English families a century later were of the emerging middle class, busy creating niches in the professions and in the world of manufacturing business ... ”
