Casts a fresh light on the abolitionist William Wilberforce and his friends in the Clapham sect by looking at their private lives as revealed in their family correspondence. Stott explores themes of the family, women and gender, childhood and education, sexuality, and intimacy.
Casts a fresh light on the abolitionist William Wilberforce and his friends in the Clapham sect by looking at their private lives as revealed in their family correspondence. Stott explores themes of the family, women and gender, childhood and education, sexuality, and intimacy.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Anne Stott has taught at the Open University and Birkbeck, University of London, as well as various other adult education institutions. She has published extensively on women and Evangelicalism, and her book, Hannah More: The First Victorian (OUP, 2003) won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 2004. She is a participant in the Dissenting Academies Project run by the Dr Williams Centre. She is the administrator of the Long Eighteenth-Century Seminar, University of London.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part I: The Abolitionist and his Circle 1: The Merchants' Children 2: The Great Change 3: 'Our Clapham Schemes' Part II: In Search of a Wife 4: Wilberforce: Love and War 5: 'Serious Duties': Henry Thornton and Marianne Sykes 6: 'Jacob and Rachel': Zachary Macaulay and Selina Mills 7: 'Too precipitate'?: William Wilberforce and Barbara Spooner Part III: The Families on the Common 8: 'Valuable Friends' 9: Helpmeets 10: Children 11: White Death Part IV: The Wilberforces at Home 12: 'Domestic Publicity' 13: 'Ten Thousand Anxieties' 14: Elizabeth: a Daughter's Dilemma 15: The Rolling Stone 16: Afterlife Conclusion Bibliography
Introduction Part I: The Abolitionist and his Circle 1: The Merchants' Children 2: The Great Change 3: 'Our Clapham Schemes' Part II: In Search of a Wife 4: Wilberforce: Love and War 5: 'Serious Duties': Henry Thornton and Marianne Sykes 6: 'Jacob and Rachel': Zachary Macaulay and Selina Mills 7: 'Too precipitate'?: William Wilberforce and Barbara Spooner Part III: The Families on the Common 8: 'Valuable Friends' 9: Helpmeets 10: Children 11: White Death Part IV: The Wilberforces at Home 12: 'Domestic Publicity' 13: 'Ten Thousand Anxieties' 14: Elizabeth: a Daughter's Dilemma 15: The Rolling Stone 16: Afterlife Conclusion Bibliography
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