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Amy Harris focuses on early modern English history, exploring family life and the unmarried in Georgian England. Her work is characterized by a deep understanding of the period's society and a focus on the lives of those often overlooked in traditional historical accounts. Through her research, she uncovers the complex social and cultural mechanisms that shaped family structures and individual destinies of the time.

Siblinghood and Social Relations in Georgian England

2016
Siblinghood and Social Relations in Georgian England
224 pages
8 hours of reading
This book examines the impact siblings had on eighteenth-century English families and society. Using evidence from letters, diaries, probate disputes, court transcripts, prescriptive literature, and portraiture it argues that siblings had to constantly negotiate between prescribed equality and practiced inequalities. -- .

Siblinghood and Social Relations in Georgian England