The Gentleman's Daughter

by Amanda Vickery

  see also nursery maids

  Main, Gloria (i)

  Mandeville, Bernard (i)

  manners (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  and courtship (i)

  see also politeness

  mantua-makers (i), (ii), (iii)

  and civility (i)

  and hospitality (i), (ii), (iii)

  named individuals (i), (ii)

  and status (i)

  manufacturers

  and centralisation of production (i), (ii)

  and domestic enterprises (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  and gentry (i), (ii)

  see also bay makers; cotton manufacturers; hatters; soap-makers; white lead; wool, manufacturers; worsted manufacturers

  marriage (i), (ii)

  age at (i), (ii)

  and children (i)

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

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

  fears of (i)

  and female roles (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  inequalities in (i), (ii)

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

  and marital strife (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)

  and money (i)

  motives for (i)

  patriarchal (i), (ii)

  and physical intimacy (i), (ii), (iii)

  and public life (i)

  and shared outlook of husband and wife (i)

  violence in (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  see also courtship; divorce; love; romanticism; separation; settlements

  Marriage Act (1753) (i)

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

  local (i)

  national (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  see also matchmaking

  Marshfield House, Settle (i), (ii)

  Martin, M. C. (i)

  Martin, Mary (i)

  martyrdom, marriage as (i)

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

  criticism of (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Massie, James (i)

  matchmaking (i), (ii), (iii)

  see also marriage market

  Mauss, Marcel (i)

  meals

  mealtimes (i)

  and sociability (i), (ii), (iii)

  see also breakfast; dinner; supper; tea

  medicine

  dispensing (i), (ii)

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

  recipes (i), (ii)

  see also doctors

  melancholy

  post-natal (i)

  pre-natal (i)

  Meldrum, T. (i), (ii)

  members of parliament (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  memorandum books see diaries and autobiographies

  men and masculinity

  abuse of power see violence

  and behaviour (i), (ii)

  and dependence on housekeeper (i), (ii)

  and dignity (i), (ii)

  and gentlemanly ideal (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  and ideal patriarch (i)

  and love of children (i)

  and ‘new economic man’ (i)

  and public sphere (i), (ii), (iii)

  recourse to mothers (i)

  reliance on female expertise (i), (ii)

  and self-control (i), (ii)

  uxoriousness (i)

  vulgarity (i), (ii)

  see also authority, male; consumerism; courtship; dress; drinking; education; fathers; mobility; officeholdmg; sincerity; sociability; sport; stoicism

  menstruation (i), (ii)

  mercers (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

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

  see also haberdashers; hosiers; land and trade; linen-drapers; mercers; tea merchants; woollen drapers

  Mercier, Philip

  Anne Gossip (i), (ii)

  William Gossip (i), (ii)

  Methodism (i), (ii)

  and servants (i)

  middling sort

  and gentry (i), (ii)

  and historiography (i), (ii), (iii)

  and women as ornament (i)

  see also genteel

  Midgley, Claire (i)

  midwifery (i)

  displacement of midwives (i), (ii)

  men-midwives (i), (ii)

  Mildmay, Lady Grace (i)

  militia (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  milk-fever (i), (ii)

  Miller, Daniel (i)

  Miller, Sanderson (i)

  milliners (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Mmgay, G. E. (i), (ii)

  miscarriage (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Mist's Weekly Journal (i)

  mobility (i)

  female (i)

  male (i)

  see also coaches and carriages; grand tour; riding; turnpikes; walks

  mobility, social, female (i), (ii)

  ‘Modern Love’ (i)

  modesty, female (i), (ii)

  Molyneux, Eliza (i)

  Montagu, Elizabeth (i)

  Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Moòn, Ellen (i), (ii)

  Morris, R. J. (i)

  Mortimer, S. (i)

  Moseley, Elizabeth (i)

  motherhood

  celebration of (i)

  constraints (i), (ii), (iii)

  as cultural construct (i)

  demands of (i), (ii), (iii)

  and duty as wife (i)

  as female role (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  joy of (i), (ii)

  and male recourse to mothers (i)

  and maternal instinct (i), (ii)

  pain of (i), (ii), (iii)

  royal (i)

  sentimentalisation (i)

  see also breast-feeding; childbirth; children; nursery maids

  mourning see grief

  ‘MR’ (i)

  Mullins, Frederick (i)

  music

  festivals (i), (ii)

  musical parties (i), (ii), (iii)

  see also concerts; opera; oratorio

  Napier, Lady Sarah (i)

  Napier, Richard (i), (ii)

  Nash, Richard (‘Beau’) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  nastmess (i)

  see also cleaning/cleanliness

  Nava, Mica (i)

  needlework see sewing

  Nelson, James (i)

  newspapers (i)

  Nichols, Margaret (i)

  Nivelon, F., The Rudiments of Genteel Behaviour (i), (ii)

  Northcote, James, Grouse-shooting in the Forest of Bowland (i)

  Norton, M. B. (i)

  novels (i)

  epistolary (i)

  exchange (i)

  influence (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  and marriage (i)

  romantic (i)

  nursery maids (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  nurses

  and lying-in (i), (ii)

  women as (i), (ii)

  Nuttal, E. (i)

  Nutter, Nanny (servant) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Oakes, James (i)

  obedience (i), (ii)

  to family (i), (ii)

  to husband (i), (ii), (iii)

  officeholding

  female exclusion from (i), (ii), (iii)

  and men's administrative duties (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  and property qualifications (i), (ii)

  officers see deputy lieutenants; magistrates; members of parliament; militia; turnpike trustees

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

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

  Ormerod, Lawrence (i), (ii)

  pamphlets (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Pantheon, Oxford Street (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Park House, Colne (i)

  Parker, Ambrose (son of Edward Parker of Alkincoats) (i), (ii)

  Parker, Anne (of Cuerden) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Parker, Banastre (of Cuerden) (i), (ii)

  Parker, Barbara (né
e Fleming; wife of Edward Parker) (i), (ii), (iii)

  and childbirth (i)

  and marriage (i)

  Parker, Beatrix (née Lister; wife of John Parker of Marshfield) (i), (ii)

  and childbirth (i)

  and dress (i), (ii)

  and housekeeping (i)

  and public life (i)

  and reading (i)

  and sociability (i), (ii)

  Parker, Betty (wife of Thomas Parker of Alkincoats) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  and child care (i)

  and consumption (i)

  and household management (i)

  and infant feeding (i)

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

  and reading (i)

  and seaside holidays (i)

  and servants (i)

  Parker, Edward (Ned; cousin of Robert Parker) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Parker, Edward (of Alkincoats and Browsholme) (i), (ii), (iii)

  Parker, Edward (of Browsholme) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  as Deputy Lieutenant (i)

  and Elizabeth Shackleton's second marriage (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  marriage (i), (ii)

  and public life (i), (ii)

  and seaside holidays (i)

  and visiting (i)

  Parker, Eliza (daughter of Thomas Parker of Alkincoats) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  Parker, Elizabeth (later Shackleton)

  and child care (i), (ii)

  and childhood illnesses (i)

  courtship of Robert Parker (i), (ii)

  and father (i), (ii), (iii)

  and household management (i)

  and infant feeding (i)

  marriage to Robert Parker (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

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

  and public life (i), (ii), (iii)

  and shopping (i)

  sons (i), (ii), (iii)

  see also Shackleton, Elizabeth

  Parker, Elizabeth (née Southouse; mother of Elizabeth Parker) (i)

  Parker, Elizabeth (of Preston & Cuerden) (i), (ii)

  Parker, Ellen (wife of Edward Parker of Alkincoats) (i)

  and child care (i), (ii)

  and childhood illnesses (i)

  and consumption (i)

  and housekeeping (i)

  and pregnancy and childbirth (i), (ii)

  and public life (i)

  Parker, John (of Browsholme) (i), (ii), (iii)

  and courtship of Elizabeth (i), (ii), (iii)

  and hospitality (i), (ii)

  and household management (i)

  illness and death (i), (ii)

  and pregnancy of Elizabeth (i)

  Parker, John (of Marshfield) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Parker, Ned (i)

  Parker, Robert (of Alkincoats) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  and children (i)

  courtship of Elizabeth (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  and Elizabeth's health (i)

  and household management (i), (ii), (iii)

  marriage to Elizabeth (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  and public life (i), (ii), (iii)

  and rabies medicine (i)

  and shopping (i)

  and sport (i)

  and will (i)

  Parker, Robert (of Cuerden) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Parker, Robert (of London) (i), (ii)

  Parker, Robert (Robin; son of Elizabeth) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  Parker, Thomas (cousin of Robert Parker) (i)

  Parker, Thomas (son of Edward Parker of Alkincoats) (i), (ii)

  Parker, Thomas (son of Elizabeth) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  birthday (i), (ii)

  childhood illness (i)

  and consumption (i), (ii)

  and household management (i), (ii)

  marriage (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  and parents' marriage (i)

  and sea bathing (i)

  and servants (i)

  and sociability (i), (ii), (iii)

  Parker (Toulson), John (son of Elizabeth Shackleton) (i), (ii)

  apprenticeship (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  and Bulcock family (i)

  as consumer (i)

  and rabies medicine (i)

  reliance on mother (i)

  and sociability (i), (ii)

  Parker, William (i)

  Parker family (i), (ii), (iii)

  correspondence network (i)

  genealogy (i)

  Parker family of Cuerden (i), (ii)

  parlour (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  parties

  private (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  see also card parties; dinner, dinner-parties; supper; tea parties

  passion

  and love (i), (ii), (iii)

  and politeness (i), (ii)

  passivity, female (i)

  Pasture House, Barrowford (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  furnishing (i), (ii)

  and garden (i)

  and hospitality (i)

  and household management (i)

  and servants (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

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

  patriarchy

  and childbirth (i)

  and ideal patriarch (i)

  and individualism (i)

  limited female acceptance (i)

  and manipulation of authority (i), (ii)

  resistance to (i)

  and wife and mother (i)

  patriotism, and motherhood (i)

  Patten family (i), (ii)

  Patten, Thomas (i), (ii)

  Payne, Samuel (i)

  Pedder, Edward (i), (ii)

  Pedder, Jane (i)

  and consumption (i)

  and education (i)

  and housekeeping (i)

  and public life (i)

  and servants (i), (ii)

  Pedder, Margaret (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Pedder, Mary (i)

  Pellet, Ann (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  and card-playing (i), (ii)

  and consumption (i)

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

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

  and the home (i)

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

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

  and reading (i)

  and servants (i)

  and visiting (i)

  Pellet, Jane (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  Pennington, Lady Sarah (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Pepys, Samuel and Elizabeth (i)

  periodicals

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

  and politeness (i)

  women's access to (i)

  see also Gentleman's Magazine; Guardian; Lady's Magazine; Spectator; Tatler

  Perkin, H. J. (i)

  petitioning, female (i), (ii), (iii)

  Philips, Sir Richard (i)

  Picture of True Conjugal Felicity, A (i)

  piety, female (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  plays (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  see also theatre

  pleasure gardens (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  and fashion (i)

  provincial (i), (ii), (iii)

  as public space (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Plestow family (i), (ii), (iii)

  politeness (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  and commerce (i), (ii)

  and the genteel (i), (ii)

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

  and material culture (i), (ii), (iii)

  and passion (i)

  and sham (i), (ii)

  theory and practice (i)

  see also civility; conversation; genteel; manners

  politics

  and culture (i), (ii)

  and land and trade (i), (ii)

  and women (i), (i
i), (iii)

  Pollock, L. A. (i), (ii), (iii)

  Pontefract

  assemblies (i), (ii)

  and doctors (i)

  and fashion (i)

  and housekeeping (i)

  and politeness (i)

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

  season (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Porter, Anna see Larpent, Anna

  Porter, Roy (i)

  portraits, as gifts (i)

  power

  and hospitality (i)

  and love (i), (ii), (iii)

  in marriage (i)

  and public life (i), (ii)

  see also authority; tyranny

  Pratt, Charles (i)

  pregnancy

  discomforts (i)

  and female vulnerability (i), (ii)

  and foetal deformity (i), (ii)

  see also childbirth

  Preston

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

  and cotton manufacture (i), (ii), (iii)

  and fashion and taste (i), (ii)

  Guild celebrations (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

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

  season (i), (ii), (iii)

  pride, female (i), (ii)

  print culture (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  privacy

  private life (i), (ii)

  rural retirement (i), (ii)

  and sociability (i)

  see also public/private spheres

  Prochaska, F. K. (i)

  professionals

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

  women as (i)

  see also clerics; doctors; lawyers

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

  seaside (i)

  property rights of women (i)

  propriety, female (i), (ii)

  in dress (i), (ii), (iii)

  and gentility (i), (ii)

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

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

  public, and print culture (i), (ii), (iii)

  public figures, women as (i), (ii), (iii)

  public schools (i), (ii)

  public spaces see church; concert hall; court; courts; opera; pleasure gardens; promenades; shops; streets; theatres

  public spirit (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  public/private spheres

  in contemporary literature (i)

  as gender spheres (i), (ii)

  and the home (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  and industrial capitalism (i), (ii)

  and leisure (i)

  and periodization (i)

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

  and social sphere (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Pudsey, R. (i)

  Pulleine, Mary Winifred (i), (ii), (iii)

  Purefoy, Henry (i), (ii)

  Quakerism (i), (ii)

  queen of assembly (i), (ii)

  rabies medicine (i), (ii), (iii)

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

  races (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Ramsay, John (i)

  Ramsden, Bessy (née Parker) (i), (ii), (iii)

  and card–playing (i)