List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
1 Mastered for Life: Servant and Wife in Victorian and Edwardian England 18
2 Landscape with Figures: Home and Community in English Society (with Jeanne L'Esperance and Howard Newby) 41
3 The Rationalization of Housework 73
4 Class and Gender in Victorian England: The Case of Hannah Cullwick and A.J. Munby 103
5 The Separation of Home and Work? Landladies and Lodgers in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century England 151
6 The Role of Gender in the 'First Industrial Nation': Farming and the Countryside in England, 1780-1850 180
7 Where the Stranger Begins: The Question of Siblings in Historical Analysis 206
8 Regarding Some 'Old Husbands' Tales': Public and Private in Feminist History 227
PART I: Adam Spoke First and Named the Orders of the World 231
PART II: As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap: Concepts and their
Consequences 249
