Worlds Between

This book presents a series of pioneering studies which together constitute a reappraisal of our understanding of the relationship between gender and history.

List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgements ix Introduction 1 1 Mastered for Life: Servant and Wife in Victorian and Edwardian England 18 2 Landscape with Figures: Home and Community in English Society (with Jeanne L’Esperance and Howard Newby) 41 3 The Rationalization of Housework 73 4 Class and Gender in Victorian England: The Case of Hannah Cullwick and A.J. Munby 103 5 The Separation of Home and Work? Landladies and Lodgers in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century England 151 6 The Role of Gender in the ‘First Industrial Nation’: Farming and the Countryside in England, 1780–1850 180 7 Where the Stranger Begins: The Question of Siblings in Historical Analysis 206 8 Regarding Some ‘Old Husbands’ Tales’: Public and Private in Feminist History 227 PART I: Adam Spoke First and Named the Orders of the World 231 PART II: As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap: Concepts and their Consequences 249