Elite Families: Class and Power in Nineteenth-Century Boston.

Change and Continuity: Networking, Newspaper, Kinships and Twentieth Century Elite Women

“…(Schijf, ed. Abbink, Salverda, 2013) Schijf points towards the work of Farrell on the Boston Brahmin families undertaken through a painstaking genealogical reconstruction that in the opinion of Gamber revealed the enduring, overlapping impact of familial alliances that retained power and status for the Brahmins long after the orthodox sociological-fiscal analysis suggested that they had been economically eclipsed (Gamber, 1995). Marcus was similarly taken with how Farrell's work when combined with Bobkin Hall's showed a long lasting pattern of kinship behaviour (Marcus, 1995).…”