Wives and Daughters

副标题: Women and Children in the Georgian Country House

ISBN: 9781852852719

出版社: Hambledon & London

出版年: 2004-07-16

页数: 454

定价: USD 29.95

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

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.