Family Life in Britain, 1650-1910

Chapter One: Introduction; Carol Beardmore, Cara Dobbing, Steven King.- Part One: Economies of the Family.- Chapter Two: Family Fortunes: Marriage, Inheritance and Economic Challenges in Scotland, c.1660-1800; Regina Poertner.- Chapter Three: Victorian Professions: the Galvanising (and Shaping) Force of Death on Families; Kim Price.- Chapter Four: "The Widows and Orphans of Servants are Dying": The Conflict of Family in the Design and Application of nineteenth-Century Civil Servant Pensions; Kathleen McIlvenna.- Part Two: Family Processes.- Chapter Five: Step Motherhood in the Nineteenth Century: Elinor Packe and Continuing Family Cohesiveness, 1900-1911; Geoff Monks.- Chapter Six: Balancing the Family: Edward Wrench, Baslow G.P. c.1862-1890; Carol Beardmore.- Chapter Seven: The Family and Insanity: The Experience of the Garlands Asylum, 1862-1910; Cara Dobbing.- Chapter Eight: Conceptualising the 'Perfect' Family in Late-Nineteenth-Century Philanthropic Institutions; Steven Taylor.- Part Three: Reconstituting the Family.- Chapter Nine: Negotiating the Blending of Families: Tension and Affection between Step-Parents and Children in Early Modern England, 1470-1640; Maria Cannon.- Chapter Ten: Family Beyond the Household: Constituting and Reconstituting as Kin; Iain Riddell.- Chapter Eleven: Configuring and Re-Configuring Families in Nineteenth-Century England; Steven King.