… formed our household; a word I should not have used, for they all walked home in the evening, after the wives and children &c. had been brought into the kitchen almost literally to lick the plates. It seemed very odd, but I believe Mr. …
… Where high heroic self-denial Sustains her self-inflicted trial. Day lab'rors! what an easy life, To feed ten children and a wife! No--I my juster pity spare To the night lab'rer's keener care; And, pleas'd, to gentler scenes …
… were born in the Americas, were more likely to remain in the colony, though wealthy Creoles usually sent their children off to Europe for their education. 2 . Carolyn E. Fick, The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from … These women were influential. Those partnered with men of wealth kept up social relations in order to marry their children into other wealthy families or to serve as intermediaries to help families pursue their marriage strategies. …
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… August [before 1797] I believe a kindness is often valued more than a benefit. Including the Woman’s Club-feasts and the children’s dinner I contrive in the course of this Month to treat about 1700 in what they think a grand Way for a little … the vicious.’ ( Thoughts 84) More saw her Cheddar School as a sort of ‘ Botany Bay expedition’ 12 and targeted the children, but also their mothers who could attend evening classes. As for her Sunday schools, ‘their modest agenda’ …
… of giving the brush to the first rider at the kill was invented, and the practice of ‘blooding’ – daubing the faces of children or new hunt members with the fox’s blood – was also developed. So too was a complex vocabulary of hunting …
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… at their country houses during the summer. Public Days showed off political families as families . Husbands, wives and children, as well as available members of the extended family, would make a concerted effort to please by entertaining …
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… Gunning sisters, Maria (1732–1760) and Elizabeth (1733–1790). Originally born in England, but returning to Ireland as children , the sisters came back to London in 1750 with no money or rank, but were praised for their superior beauty, …
… and rural ; ladies were expected to exercise their social skill within the narrow family sphere with their spouse, children and servants. The household was depicted as a sort of happy and apolitical commonwealth. 12 11 . Jonathan Swift …