Love, Loss and Family Advantage
Rosalind Mitchison, 1 September 1983
Family Forms in Historic Europe
edited by Richard Wall.
Cambridge, 606 pp., £37.50, March 1983,0 521 24547 8 Show More
edited by Richard Wall.
Cambridge, 606 pp., £37.50, March 1983,
Servants in Husbandry in Early Modern England
by Ann Kussmaul.
Cambridge, 245 pp., £22, December 1981,0 521 23566 9 Show More
by Ann Kussmaul.
Cambridge, 245 pp., £22, December 1981,
The Subversive Family: An Alternative History of Love and Marriage
by Ferdinand Mount.
Cape, 282 pp., £9.50, July 1982,0 224 01999 6 Show More
by Ferdinand Mount.
Cape, 282 pp., £9.50, July 1982,
“... were there to work on the farm or in whatever special economic base sustained their new household. Ann Kussmaul’s Servants in Husbandry in Early Modern England sets out their life pattern and prospects. Service was, for young folk, they hoped, only a period in their lives before they would be promoted to tenancy. In the agriculture of the day many tasks ... ”
