The Gentleman's Daughter

by Amanda Vickery

  dinner-parties (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  disease

  and children (i), (ii)

  see also smallpox

  Dissent (i)

  and politeness (i)

  divorce (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  doctors

  and childhood illnesses (i), (ii)

  and gentry (i), (ii), (iii)

  and infant feeding (i)

  and inoculation (i)

  role in childbirth (i), (ii)

  domesticity

  celebration of (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  and charity (i)

  increased (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  manipulation (i)

  see also children, child care; motherhood; public/private spheres

  Douglas, Mary (i)

  Downes, Bridget (i)

  drapers (i), (ii), (iii)

  and Elizabeth Parker's sons (i)

  see also linen-drapers

  dress

  female (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

  and elegance (i), (ii)

  and emulation (i), (ii), (iii)

  and excesses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  and nonconformity (i)

  and propriety (i), (ii), (iii)

  see also fashion; headdresses

  male (i)

  servants (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  drinking

  male (i), (ii), (iii)

  servants' (i), (ii), (iii)

  drums (i)

  duty (i), (ii), (iii)

  and love (i), (ii), (iii)

  and marriage (i), (ii), (iii)

  and motherhood (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  and visiting (i)

  Earle, P. (i), (ii), (iii)

  economy, ideal of (i), (ii), (iii)

  Ecroyd family (i), (ii), (iii)

  Edgeworth, Maria (i), (ii)

  education

  at home (i)

  female (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  male (i)

  maternal role (i), (ii), (iii)

  paternal role (i)

  see also boarding schools; governesses; grammar schools; literacy; public schools

  Egerton, Lady (i)

  elegance (i), (ii)

  in dress (i)

  and ease (i), (ii), (iii)

  in houses (i), (ii), (iii)

  in meals (i)

  and sociability 211—12

  Ellison, Henry (i)

  elopement (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Emmott Hall, Colne (i)

  employers, women as see servants

  emulation, and consumption (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  endogamy (i)

  engagement (i), (ii)

  entertainment

  and female involvement (i), (ii)

  see also assemblies; balls; card parties; concerts; dancing masters; drums; lectures; masquerades; opera; oratorio; plays; races; ridotto; routs; theatricals, private

  enthusiasm, religious, distaste for (i), (ii), (iii)

  estate management, female involvement (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Evangelicalism (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Everitt, Alan (i)

  exhibitions (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  expertise, female (i)

  and male reliance on (i), (ii)

  eye-service (i), (ii)

  and marriage (i)

  family

  and female role (i), (ii), (iii)

  history and continuity (i), (ii), (iii)

  patriarchal (i)

  private (i)

  public (i), (ii)

  as public institution (i), (ii)

  size (i), (ii), (iii)

  types (i)

  see also children; fathers; household; kin; motherhood

  farming and livestock, female involvement with (i), (ii), (iii)

  fashion

  and age (i)

  and excesses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  exchange of information on (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  and men (i), (ii)

  and women (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  see also dress

  fathers

  and authority (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  and child care (i), (ii)

  and indulgence to daughters (i), (ii)

  femininity, and domesticity (i)

  feminism, and motherhood (i)

  Ferrand, Benjamin (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Ferrand family (i), (ii)

  Fielden, Margaret (i)

  Fielding, Henry (i)

  Fildes, Valerie (i), (ii)

  Filmer, Robert (i)

  fireworks (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  fishing (i), (ii), (iii)

  Fiske, Jane (i)

  Fleming, Sir William of Rydal Hall (i), (ii)

  Fletcher, Anthony (i)

  food supply (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Ford, Sarah (i), (ii)

  fortitude (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Fothergill, Betty (i), (ii)

  Foucault, Michel (i)

  Frankland, Robert (i)

  friendly societies (i), (ii)

  friends

  and gift-giving (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  role in courtship (i), (ii), (iii)

  and social status (i), (ii)

  see also visiting

  frivolousness, and women (i), (ii)

  frustration (i)

  furniture

  and consumption (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  and family history (i), (ii)

  see also Gillows of Lancaster

  gardening (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Gawthern, Abigail (i), (ii), (iii)

  and public life (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  gender

  and ideology of difference (i)

  and industrialisation (i)

  and rank (i)

  see also public/private spheres

  genteel, the

  as social category (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  see also land and trade

  gentleman

  ideal (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  private (i)

  Gentleman's Magazine (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  and Browsholme Hall (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  and marriage (i)

  and medicine (i)

  gentry (i), (ii)

  and family size (i)

  and manners (i)

  and manufacturers (i), (ii)

  and professionals (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  and property ownership (i), (ii)

  residences (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  and social networks (i)

  see also aristocrats; land and trade

  George II, and masked balls (i)

  George, M. (i)

  Gibson, George (i)

  gift-giving (i), (ii)

  and friends (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  and kin (i), (ii)

  and servants (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Gilbert, Ann Taylor (i)

  Gillows of Lancaster

  clientele (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)

  and provincial gentility (i), (ii)

  and Shackleton household (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  girls

  and boarding schools (i)

  coming out (i), (ii)

  preference for (i), (ii)

  Gisburn Park, and Lister family (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Goede, Christian (i)

  Goldsmith, Oliver (i), (ii), (iii)

  Gossip, Anne (née Wilmer) (i), (ii)

  and childbirth (i)

  and childhood illnesses (i), (ii)

  and education (i)

  and household management (i)

  and infant feeding (i)

  and marriage (i), (ii), (iii)

  and servants (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Gossip family, correspondence network (i), (ii)

  Gossip, George (i), (ii)

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p; Gossip, Joanna (i)

  Gossip, Susannah (i), (ii), (iii)

  Gossip, Thomas (i), (ii)

  Gossip, William (i), (ii), (iii)

  on childbirth (i)

  and children (i), (ii)

  as Deputy Lieutenant (i), (ii), (iii)

  and household management (i)

  on infant feeding (i)

  and marriage (i), (ii), (iii)

  and public life (i)

  and shopping (i)

  and spas (i)

  gout (i), (ii)

  governesses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  government, female involvement (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  grammar schools (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  grand tour (i)

  Gravelot, H. (i), (ii)

  Greaves, S. (i)

  Greene, Mrs Elizabeth (i)

  Greene, Mrs Martha (i)

  Greene, Richard (i)

  Greene, Thomas (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Gregory, J. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  grief (i), (ii), (iii)

  Griffiths, Moses, Harrowgate Wells (i)

  grocers (i), (ii)

  Guardian (i)

  haberdashers (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Habermas, Jürgen (i)

  Halifax, Charles Montague, 1st earl (i), (ii), (iii)

  Hall, C. (i), (ii)

  Hall, Jennifer (i)

  Hamilton, Duke of (i)

  happiness in marriage see marriage

  Hargreaves family (i)

  Hargreaves, Molly (servant) (i), (ii)

  Hargreaves, William (i)

  Harris, Bob (i)

  Harrison, C. (i)

  Harrogate (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Hartley, Betty (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Hartley, J. (i)

  hatters (i), (ii)

  Haywood, Eliza (i), (ii), (iii)

  and courtship (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  and private life (i), (ii)

  and public life (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  and rural life (i)

  headdresses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Heal, F. (i), (ii), (iii)

  Heaton family, and servants (i), (ii)

  Hebdidge, D. (i)

  Hecht, J. J. (i), (ii), (iii)

  Heidegger, Johann Jacob (i)

  heiresses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  Hemphill, Dallet (i), (ii)

  Henstock, Adrian (i)

  Hill, William of Ormskirk (i), (ii), (iii)

  historiography

  and consumption (i), (ii)

  and domestication of women (i), (ii)

  and housekeeping (i)

  and the middling sorts (i)

  and motherhood (i), (ii)

  and public life (i), (ii)

  Hodgkinson, John (i)

  Holgate, John (i), (ii)

  Holgate, John (younger) (i)

  holidays (i), (ii)

  Holland, Elizabeth (i)

  Holmes, C. (i)

  Holmes, Jane (i)

  home see domesticity; family; hospitality; household

  Home, Henry, Lord Kames (i), (ii)

  honour (i), (ii)

  and courtship (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Horrocks, Alice (i)

  Horrocks, Eliza see Whitaker, Eliza

  Horrocks, Jane (daughter of Samuel Horrocks) (i), (ii)

  Horrocks, Jane (wife of John Horrocks) (i)

  Horrocks, John (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Horrocks, Mary (i)

  Horrocks, Peter (i)

  Horrocks, Sam (younger) (i), (ii)

  Horrocks, Samuel (elder) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Horrocks, Sarah (i), (ii), (iii)

  hosiers (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  hospitality (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  changing concept (i)

  and sport (i)

  and trade (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  see also civility; hostess

  Hoste, T. H. Dixon (i)

  hostesses, women as (i), (ii)

  Houlbrooke, R. (i)

  household

  and female authority (i), (ii), (iii)

  and female management (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

  and manufacture (i), (ii), (iii)

  housekeeper

  administrative role (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  authority (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  drudgery (i), (ii)

  gracious air (i)

  male dependence on (i), (ii)

  housekeeping

  change over time (i)

  constituents of (i), (ii)

  and memorandum books (i)

  and organization of household goods (i)

  and public life (i)

  seen as non-productive (i), (ii)

  urban/rural (i)

  see also cleaning; cooking; dairy;

  gardening; husbandry; inventories; medicine, production; servants; sewing;

  textile manufacture

  Hubbard, Henry (i)

  Hufton, Olwen (i)

  Hunt, Margaret (i), (ii), (iii),

  Hunter, Jean (i)

  Hunter, William (i)

  hunting (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  dinners (i)

  songs (i)

  husband

  and authority (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  challenges to (i)

  mockery of (i)

  qualities (i), (ii)

  husbandry (i), (ii)

  idleness, and women (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  illness

  of children (i), (ii)

  remedies (i)

  of women (i), (ii)

  see also disease; gout; inoculation; rabies medicine; smallpox; vaccination

  impropriety see propriety

  individualism, affective (i)

  industrialisation

  and domesticity (i)

  and textile industry (i)

  infertility (i), (ii), (iii)

  Ingrams, Martin (i)

  inheritance, importance (i)

  inoculation (i), (ii), (iii)

  inventories (i), (ii), (iii)

  Isaac (servant) (i), (ii), (iii)

  Isherwood, B. (i)

  Jacobite sympathies (i), (ii), (iii)

  Jefferys, Elizabeth (i), (ii)

  Johnson, Mrs M. (i)

  Johnson, Samuel (i), (ii), (iii)

  Johnson, Thomas (i)

  Jordan, Dorothy (i), (ii)

  Josselin, Ralph (i)

  Kames, Henry Home, Lord (i), (ii)

  Kelly, Hugh (i)

  Kendall, Anna (i)

  Kennedy, Elizabeth (i)

  Kimber, Edward (i)

  kin

  and bereavement (i)

  and fashion (i), (ii)

  and household management (i), (ii)

  and marital difficulties (i), (ii), (iii)

  and pregnancy and childbirth (i), (ii), (iii)

  and shopping (i), (ii)

  and sociability (i), (ii), (iii)

  King, E. (i)

  King, Gregory (i)

  King, Mrs Henrietta (i)

  kitchen

  and servants (i)

  and visiting (i), (ii)

  see also cooks

  Klein, Lawrence (i)

  Knight, Cornelia (i)

  Kowaleski-Wallace, B. (i)

  La Rochefoucauld, François duc de (i)

  Ladies Dictionary (i), (ii), (iii)

  Lady's Magazine (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Lancaster, and trials (i)

  land and trade (i)

  familial links (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  and public life (i)

  shared material culture (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  shared role in administration (i), (ii), (iii)

  see also gentry; sociability

  Lang, D. (i)

  Langford, Paul (i), (ii)

  Laqueur, T. (i)

  Larminie, Vivienne (i)

/>   Larpent, Mrs Anna (i), (ii)

  and childhood illnesses (i)

  and civility (i)

  and education of children (i)

  and fashion (i)

  and housekeeping (i)

  and marriage (i)

  and public life (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  law

  and legal status of women (i)

  see also separation; settlements; wills

  lawyers, and gentry (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Leach family (i), (ii)

  lectures (i)

  Leeds Intelligencer (i), (ii)

  Leeds Mercury (i), (ii), (iii)

  Legates, Marlene (i), (ii)

  Leighton, Jennette (i)

  leisure

  commercialized (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  London (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)

  provincial (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  and public sphere (i), (ii)

  see also assemblies; concerts; music; opera; oratorio; theatre

  conspicuous (i)

  intellectual (i), (ii)

  Lemire, Beverley (i)

  letters and letter-writing

  business letters (i)

  conduct letters (i), (ii), (iii)

  female (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  love letters (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  male (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  manuals (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  on marriage (i), (ii)

  networks (i), (ii), (iii)

  to kin (i), (ii)

  Lewis, Judith (i), (ii), (iii)

  library, circulating (i), (ii)

  linen

  household (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  manufacture (i)

  linen-drapers (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Lister, Anne (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Lister, Mrs Beatrice

  and housekeeping (i)

  and sociability (i)

  Lister, Miss Beatrix see Parker, Beatrix

  Lister family (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Lister, Nathaniel (i), (ii)

  Lister, Thomas (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  literacy (i), (ii)

  livestock see farming and livestock

  Locke, John (i)

  London

  and assemblies (i)

  and fashion and taste (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  and land and trade (i)

  and music and theatre (i), (ii), (iii)

  and season (i), (ii), (iii)

  and social life (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  and trials (i)

  see also court

  love

  and duty (i), (ii)

  love letters (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  and marriage (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  ornaments (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  and power (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  and romanticism (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  see also courtship; marriage

  Lowther, Sir James (i), (ii)

  luxury

  and display (i)

  and female role (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Lystra, Karen (i)

  McKendrick, Neil (i), (ii)

  Macky, I. (i)

  magistrates (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  maids (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)