English family life, 1576-1716 : an anthology from diaries
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English family life, 1576-1716 : an anthology from diaries
Basil Blackwell, 1989, c1988
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Note
Bibliography: p. [241]-260
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Intimate and revealing, the private diaries in this anthology give us a glimpse into the daily life of a bygone age. Ranging over a crucial 150 year period, the author has collected passages from more than 40 diarists. Some, like Pepys and Evelyn, are justifiably famous; most are unknown and previously unpublished. Weaving them around the central rites of passage - birth, infancy and childhood, courtship, marriage, old age and death - he provides a detailed and human picture of domestic life in early modern England.
Table of Contents
- Courtship and marriage
- married life and widowhood
- pregnancy, childbirth and infancy
- childhood
- adolescence and departure from home
- parents' old age and deaths
- other kinsfolk. Appendix: diarists and diaries
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