Wife Beating, Domesticity and Women's Independence in Eighteenth‐Century London

Hunt, Margaret R.

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0424.1992.tb00143.x

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“…I wash myself before we open shop when it does not interfere with my work.'' 63 Although men and women appear not to have been generally segregated in terms of daily activities during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, 64 there were clearly exceptions to this rule where sexual impropriety or modesty were concerned: hence Jones's chiding Heywood for washing when female members of the household were present and for sitting up late in the parlor or kitchen when they wished to mend their clothes (though it was presumably acceptable for men and women to socialize in these spaces at other times). 65 Tim Meldrum has shown how sexual segregation was usual for servants and other unmarried adult household members, 66 which is why Mr. Jones appears to have been concerned that Heywood not be alone with Betty, a domestic servant.…”

Section: Tales From Two Cities: Experiences Of Home and Household In mentioning

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Living above the Shop: Home, Business, and Family in the English ‘‘Industrial Revolution’’

Barker

Hamlett

2010

Journal of Family History

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This article explores the living arrangements and familial relations of small business households in northwest English towns between 1760 and 1820. Focusing on evidence from inventories and personal writing, it examines the homes that such households lived and worked in and the ways in which space was ordered and used: indicating that access to particular spaces was determined by status. This study suggests both the continuance of the "household family" into the nineteenth century (rather than its more modern, "nuclear" variant) and the existence of keenly felt gradations of status within households making it likely that the constitution of "the family" differed according to one's place in the domestic hierarchy.

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Section: Tales From Two Cities: Experiences Of Home and Household In mentioning

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Living above the Shop: Home, Business, and Family in the English ‘‘Industrial Revolution’’

Barker

Hamlett

2010

Journal of Family History

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“…118 There is no doubt that a husband could disrupt his wife's economic life, but as the advertisements show, men's economic independence was also qualified. 120 Yet there is evidence that wives expected to have control over household resources and retained some sense of possession over moveable goods during marriage, at the same time as willingly putting these goods to familial and household use. 119 Margaret Hunt has commented that men 'monopolized most of the material resources ' in marriage and women owned nothing of their own.…”

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Favoured or oppressed? Married women, property and ‘coverture’ in England, 1660–1800

Bailey

2002

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In the eighteenth century, the condition of English wives under ‘coverture’ was both defended as one of privilege and attacked as worse than slavery. This article suggests that married women were not in reality confined within coverture's regulations on credit and property ownership. Their economic activities were fairly broad and flexible and they had an instinctive sense of possession over some goods during wedlock, perceiving their contributions to marriage as a pooling of resources for familial benefit. It will be suggested that wives did not necessarily think that their conduct in acting as if some marital property was legally theirs was illegitimate, because it was facilitated by coverture and the legal devices that allowed it to function.

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“…In this work, we suggest a re-interpretation of the theoretical concepts of ‘displacement’ and ‘restraint’ through the literature review of both accounting and novels, poetry, essays, and short stories genres (e.g., Camino, 2001a; Dolin, 1993; Hernández-Pecoraro, 1997; Lowe, 1990) to add a gender ‘flavor’ to the analysis of female Benedictine monasteries. In doing this, we expect to contribute to histories of accounting and religion (Abdul-Rahman and Goddard, 1998; Booth, 1993; Carmona and Ezzamel, 2006, 2009; Hernández-Esteve, 2005; Lewis, 2001).…”

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Accounting in the organisation and life of a religious institution: The Monastery ofSanta Anain the eighteenth century

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Set in the municipal archives of Braga, this article studies the accounting system and practices of the Monastery of Santa Ana, a female monastery located in a small town, Viana do Castelo, in the north of Portugal, during the eighteenth century. This work is a full-scale examination of the interlink between governance and accounting aspects of Benedictine organisations. It sheds light on the extent of management and administration that the female gender was able to exercise pertaining to a monastic order. The use of ‘displacement’ and ‘restraint’ concepts is pivotal to such exploration in the Monastery. The analysis of the accounting practices makes visible that large parts of its governance was embedded in social and internal accounting controls rather than the principal-agent type of relationship between the abbess, her auxiliaries and the monastery. Moreover, accounting practices help to appreciate the level of freedom of nuns that exceeded the actual freedom of a contemporary married woman.

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Wife Beating, Domesticity and Women's Independence in Eighteenth‐Century London

Cited by 78 publications

References 1 publication

Living above the Shop: Home, Business, and Family in the English ‘‘Industrial Revolution’’

Living above the Shop: Home, Business, and Family in the English ‘‘Industrial Revolution’’

Favoured or oppressed? Married women, property and ‘coverture’ in England, 1660–1800

Accounting in the organisation and life of a religious institution: The Monastery ofSanta Anain the eighteenth century

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