Rethinking the Family in Early Modern Britain

Helen Berry is Professor of History at the University of Exeter and has written extensively on the social history of Georgian England. Her previous publications include Gender, Society and Print Culture in Late-Stuart England (2003), The Castrato and His Wife (2011) and Orphans of Empire: The Fate of London's Foundlings (2019), which was shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize. Elizabeth Foyster is a Fellow in History at Clare College, the University of Cambridge. She has published widely on topics relating to the history of the family in Britain from the seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century, including Marital Violence: An English Family History (Cambridge, 2005), and The Trials of the King of Hampshire: Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England (2016).

• List of plates; List of contributors; 1. Introduction: Rethinking Families Helen Berry and Elizabeth Foyster; 2. Children, religion and spirituality in early modern families Carys Brown; 3. Remaking family economies: the patriarchal Parish and pauper apprenticeships James D. Fisher; 4. Ties of intimacy: the body and the early modern family Sarah Fox, Karen Harvey and Emily Vine; 5. Parenting the child with learning disabilities Elizabeth Foyster; 6. Family, race and empire in early modern Britain Vivien E. Dietz and Dana Y. Rabin; 7. The family in the Anthropocene Jason M. Kelly; 8. Military families Jennine Hurl-Eamon; 9. Queer families Helen Berry and Anthony Delaney; 10. Emotions, suicide and the spectral family Ella Sbaraini; Index.