Cruelty and Companionship is an account of the intimate but darker sides of marriage in Victorian and Edwardian England. Hammerton draws upon previously unpublished material from the records of the divorce court and magistrates' courts to challenge many popular views about changing family patterns. His findings open a rare window onto the sexual politics of everyday life and the routine tensions which conditioned marriage in middle and working class families. Using contemporary evidence ranging from prescriptive texts and public debate to autobiography and fiction, Hammerton examines the intense public scrutiny which accompanied the routine exposure of marital breakdown, and charts a growing critique of men's behaviour in marriage which increasingly demanded regulation and reform. The critical discourse which resulted, ranging from paternalist to feminist, casts new light on the origins and trajectory of nineteenth century feminism, legal change and our understanding of the changing expression of masculinity.

Cruelty and Companionship: Conflict in Nineteenth Century Married Life

Hammerton, A.James

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Routledge

`original, imaginative and challenging...brings concerns together about gender, the family, and wider currents in British social, cultural and even political experience in the second half of the 19th century.' - Leonore Davidoff

More than a million Britons emigrated to Australia between the 1940s and 1970s. They were the famous "ten pound Poms" and this is their story. Illuminated by the fascinating testimony of migrant life histories, this is the first substantial history of their experience and fills a gaping hole in the literature of emigration. The authors, both leading figures in the fields of oral history and migration studies, draw upon a rich life history archive of letters, diaries, personal photographs and hundreds of oral history interviews with former migrants, including those who settled in Australia and those who returned to Britain.

Ten Pound Poms: A Life History of British Postwar Emigration to Australia

History

Thomson, Alistair

Australia & Oceania

Manchester University Press

More than a million Britons emigrated to Australia between the 1940s and 1970s. They were the famous 'ten pound Poms' and this is their story. Illuminated by the fascinating testimony of migrant life histories, this is the first substantial history of their experience and fills a gaping hole in the literature of emigration. The authors, both leading figures in the fields of oral history and migration studies, draw upon a rich life history archive of letters, diaries, personal photographs and hundreds of oral history interviews with former migrants, including those who settled in Australia and those who returned to Britain. They offer original interpretations of key historical themes, including: motivations for emigration; gender relations and the family dynamics of migration; the 'very familiar and awfully strange' confrontation with the new world; the anguish of homesickness and return; and the personal and national identities of both settlers and returnees, fifty years on. Accessible and appealing, this book will engage readers interested in British and Australian migration history and intrigued about the significance of migrant memories for individuals, families and nations.

‘Ten Pound Poms’: A life history of British postwar emigration to Australia

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Emigrant gentlewomen: Genteel poverty and female emigration, 1830-1914

Rowman and Littlefield

A bibliography of women in British history, 1800-1945 (Bibliographies in women's history)

Australian Historical Association

Emigrant Gentlewomen: Genteel Poverty and Female Emigration, 1830-1914 (Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World)

First published in 1979. This book examines the distressed gentlewoman stereotype, primarily through a study of the experience of emigration among single middle-class women between 1830 and 1914. Based largely on a study of government and philanthropic emigration projects, it argues that the image of the downtrodden resident governess does inadequate justice to Victorian middle-class women’s responses to the experience of economic and social decline and to insufficient female employment opportunities. This title will be of interest to students of history.

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First published in 1979. This book examines the distressed gentlewoman stereotype, primarily through a study of the experience of emigration among single middle-class women between 1830 and 1914. Based largely on a study of government and philanthropic emigration projects, it argues that the image of the downtrodden resident governess does inadequate justice to Victorian middle-class women’s responses to the experience of economic and social decline and to insufficient female employment opportunities. This title will be of interest to students of history.

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Cruelty and Companionship: Conflict in Nineteenth Century Married Life

Cruelty and Companionship: Conflict in Nineteenth Century Married Life

Ten Pound Poms: A Life History of British Postwar Emigration to Australia

‘Ten Pound Poms’: A life history of British postwar emigration to Australia

Emigrant gentlewomen: Genteel poverty and female emigration, 1830-1914

A bibliography of women in British history, 1800-1945 (Bibliographies in women's history)

Cruelty and Companionship: Conflict in Nineteenth Century Married Life

Emigrant Gentlewomen: Genteel Poverty and Female Emigration, 1830-1914 (Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World)

Emigrant Gentlewomen: Genteel Poverty and Female Emigration, 1830-1914 (Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World)