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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. -- .

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'...this text usefully and compactly investigates an important and neglected matter.'
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Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Learning to be a sibling
2. Ties that bound
3. Ties that cut
4. Sibling economics
5. Sibling politics
Conclusion
Appendix one: Tables
Appendix two: Family trees
Select bibliography
Index

Siblinghood and Social Relations in Georgian

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 8/18/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719087370, 978-0719087370
      ISBN10: 0719087376

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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. -- .

      Trade Review

      '...this text usefully and compactly investigates an important and neglected matter.'
      Martha F. Bowden, Kennesaw State University, The Scriblerian and the Kit-cats, May 2016

      -- .

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      1. Learning to be a sibling
      2. Ties that bound
      3. Ties that cut
      4. Sibling economics
      5. Sibling politics
      Conclusion
      Appendix one: Tables
      Appendix two: Family trees
      Select bibliography
      Index

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