Kinship as a categorical concept: A Case study of nineteenth century english siblings

Journal of Social History

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Davidoff, Leonore ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Sociology ^*  (United Kingdom)

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EID: 31144451854     PISSN: 00224529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jsh.2005.0132     Document Type: Review

References (82)

1. Leonore Davidoff, Worlds, Between: Historical Perspectives on Gender and Class (Cambridge, 1995): 207.
2. David Schneider, A Critique of the Study of Kinship (Ann Arbor, 1984);
3. Janet Garsten, "Introduction: cultures of relatedness" and Janet Garsten and Marilyn Strathern, "Including our own" in Janet Garsten, ed., Cultures of Relatedness: New Approaches to the Study of Kinship (Cambridge, 2000).
4. Elizabeth B. Silva and Carol Smart, eds, The New Family? (London, 1999).
5. David H.J. Morgan, Family Connections: An Introduction to Family Studies (Cambridge, 1996).
6. L. Davidoff, M. Doolittle, J. Fink and K. Holden, The Family Story: Blood, Contract and Intimacy 1830-1960 (London, 1998).
7. Marilyn Strathern, After Nature: English Kinship in the Late 20th Century (Cambridge, 1992);
8. Andrew Brown, The Darwin Wars: The Scientific Battle for the Soul of Man (London, 2000).
9. Carsten in Cultures of Relatedness.
10. Penelope Farmer, Two or The Book of Twins and Doubles (London, 1996).
11. Ann Shearer, "Sisters and Brothers - Brothers and Sisters: Intimate Relations and the Question of 'Incest'," paper delivered at the European University Institute, September 2000, by permission of the author.
12. Graham Allan, Kinship and Friendship in Modem Britain (Oxford, 1996): 3.
13. Anthony Giddens, The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Society (Cambridge, 1992);
14. Lynn Jamieson, Intimacy: Personal Relationships in Modern Society (Cambridge, 1998).
15. Valerie Sanders, The Brother-Sister Culture in Nineteenth-Century Literature from Austen to Woolf (London, 2002).
16. Virginia Blain, "Thinking Back Through Our Aunts: Harriet Martineau and Tradition in Women's Writing," Women: A Cultural Review, Vol 1, No 1 (1990);
17. Margeret Allen, "Thinking Back Through our Aunts: Emily and Matilda Sturge," Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, Vol 10 (2001).
18. See Robert Sanders, Sibling Relationships: Theory and Issues for Practice (London, 2004).
19. Juliet Mitchell, Mad Men and Medusas: Reclaiming Hysteria and the Effects of Sibling Relations on the Human Condition (London, 2000).
20. Juliet Mitchell, Siblings: Sex and Violence (Cambridge, 2003), xi.
21. Prophecy Coles, The Importance of Sibling Relationships in Psychoanalysis (London, 2003): 1-2.
22. Ann Shearer, "Sisters and Brothers": 1.
23. Leonore Davidoff, "Where the Stranger Begins";
24. David Sabean, Kinship in Neckerhausen 1700-1800 (Cambridge, 1998);
25. Naomi Tadmor, Family and Friends in 18th Century England: Household, Kinship and Patronage (Cambridge, 2001).
26. Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall, Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class (London, 2002);
27. this practice as followed by Sigmund Freud and his sister, Anna, see Leonore Davidoff, "The Legacy of the Nineteenth Century Bourgeois Family and the Wool Merchant's Son," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th Series, Vol. XIV (December 2004).
28. This is explored in detail in L. Davidoff, M. Doolittle, J. Fink and K. Holden, The Family Story: Blood, Contract and Intimacy 1830-1960 (London, 1998).
29. Francine Klagsbrun, Mixed Feelings: Love, Hate, Rivalry and Reconciliation Among Brothers and Sisters (New York, 1992).
30. Leonore Davidoff, "Eins sein zu zweit": Geschwisterinzest in der englishchen Mittelschicht des spaten 18. und fruhen 19. Jarhunderts," L'Homme: Zeitschrift fur Feminishtische Geschichtswissenschaft, Vol 13, No. 1 (2002).
31. quoted in Barbara Taylor, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination (Cambridge, 2003): 6.
32. George Eliot, "Brother and Sister," Spanish Gypsy (Edinburgh, 1901 ): 579.
33. Mary Anne Hedge, "On the Reciprocal Duties of Brother and Sister," My Own Fireside (Colchester, 1832): 116-118.
34. Jane Taylor, "To a Brother on His Birthday" in I. Taylor (ed.) Memoirs, Correspondence and Poetical Remains (1831).
35. Richard Deacon, The Private Life of Mr. Gladstone (London, 1965): 29.
36. H.C.G. Matthew, Gladstone: 1809-1898 (Oxford, 1997).
37. Letter from Anne M. to William E., November 1, 1825, Flintshire Record Office, Gladstone Collection, No 605.
38. M.R.D. Foot, ed., The Gladstone Diaries, Vol I (Oxford, 1968): 53.
39. See for example, Judith Flanders, The Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Bume-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin (London, 2001 ): 51.
40. Foot, The Gladstone Diaries, 228.
41. Letter from Anne M. to William E. March 30, 1824, Gladstone Coll. No 605.
42. S.G. Checkland, The Gladstones: A Family Biographe 1764-1851 (Cambridge, 1971): 230.
43. S.G. Checkland, The Gladstones: A Family Biographe 1764-1851. Ibid, p. 165.
44. Letter from Helen Jane to William E., February 2, 1829, Gladstone Coll. No 629.
45. Letter William E. to Helen J. November 10, 1829 Gladstone Coll. No 751.
46. Letter Helen J. to William E. November 18, 1829 Gladstone Coll. No 629.
47. Matthew, 91-93.
48. See Leonore Davidoff, "Class and Gender in Victorian England: The Case of Hannah Cullwick and A.J. Munby" in Worlds Between: Historical Perspectives on Gender and Class (Cambridge, 1995).
49. Richard Shannon, Gladstone, Vol I 1809-1865 (London, 1982): 25.
50. Checkland, 290.
51. Clipping from Birmingham paper sent to William E. by a friend. Gladstone Coll. No 630.
52. Letter of William to his father quoted in Philip Magnus, Gladstone, A Biography (London, 1954): 59.
53. Matthew, 92-93.
54. Letter of William E. to Helen J. May 30, 1842, Gladstone Coll. No. 751.
55. Ibid.
56. Ibid.
57. Ibid.
58. M.R.D. Foot and H.C.G. Matthew, eds, The Gladstone Diaries Vol. III (Oxford, 1974), 202.
59. Magnus, 82.
60. Ibid, p. 71.
61. Ibid, pp 74-75.
62. Papers of Sir Thomas Gladstone, 1844-46, Gladstone Coll. No. 1304.
63. Papers of Sir Thomas Gladstone, Ibid, December 5, 1846.
64. Papers of Sir Thomas Gladstone, Ibid.
65. Papers of Sir Thomas Gladstone, Ibid, January 8, 1846.
66. Papers of Sir Thomas Gladstone, Ibid, January 7, 1846.
67. Papers of Sir Thomas Gladstone, Ibid, January 9, 1846.
68. Papers of Sir Thomas Gladstone, Ibid.
69. Papers of Sir Thomas Gladstone, Ibid, January 11, 1846.
70. Papers of Sir Thomas Gladstone, Ibid, January 13, 16, 18 and 19, 1846.
71. Letter of Helen to William, May 12, 1846, Gladstone Coll. No 630.
72. Magnus pp 81-82;
73. for the practice of controlling women through incarceration in lunatic asylums, see Elaine Showalter, The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture 1830-1980 (London, 1987).
74. Letter from Dr. Miller November 8, 1848, Gladstone Coll. No. 360.
75. Letter Helen Jane to William, July 24, 1853, Gladstone Coll. No. 629.
76. Magnus, 60.
77. Ibid, 234.
78. Matthew, 329.
79. Letter from William to Helen Jane, November 24, 1848, quoted in Magnus, p. 84.
80. Magnus, 268.
81. Deacon, 179.
82. John Morley, The Life of Gladstone (London, 1927): 44.