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Introducing James Luckcock of Birmingham What was the English middle class? -Concepts and methods Setting the Scene Places: The town -Birmingham The countryside Essex and Suffolk People: The family shop -the Cadburys of Birmingham The family pen -the Taylors of Essex Religion and Ideology 'bishop' of Birmingham Church organization: women voting and women speaking -Laymen and women 'The nursery of virtue': domestic ideology and the middle class The Queen Caroline affair Middle-class readers and writers William Cowper and Hannah More Local writers on separate spheres Domestic ideologies of the 1830s and 1840s Economic Structure and Opportunity Introduction 'A modest competency': men, women and property Enterprise organization Land and capital Enterprise finance Providing for dependants The interdependence of enterprise, family and friends The role of marriage in the enterprise Training for the enterprise Retirement from the enterprise 'A man must act': men and the enterprise Middle-class men and occupations The search for a 'sound commercial education' Commerce and trade Banks and banking Manufacture Farming -The professions The salaried 'The hidden investment': women and the enterprise Women and property Women's contribution to the enterprise The education of women and its effects Women as teachers Women as innkeepers Women in trade The marginal place of women in the economy Women, men and occupational identity How did women survive? Everyday Life: Gender in Action

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