Travels without My Aunt
Catherine Gallagher: The 18th-century family, 3 November 2005
Novel Relations: The Transformation of Kinship in English Literature and Culture 1748-1818
by Ruth Perry.
Cambridge, 466 pp., £50, August 2004,0 521 83694 8 Show More
by Ruth Perry.
Cambridge, 466 pp., £50, August 2004,
“... over the entire early modern period, without any dramatic turning-points or sharp discontinuities. Ruth Perry knows these things; she warns us not to confuse her argument with ‘the discredited thesis that the multi-generational, extended family gave way sometime in the 17th or 18th century to a nuclear family form’. She does maintain, however, that ... ”