كتاب
Companions without vows: relationships among eighteenth-century British women
| العنوان: | Companions without vows: relationships among eighteenth-century British women |
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| المؤلفون: | Rizzo, Betty. |
| بيانات النشر: | Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1994. |
| سنة النشر: | 1994 |
| وصف مادي: | x, 439 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Single women -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century -- Case studies., Women -- Employment -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century -- Case studies., Fellowship., Marriage -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century., Benefactors -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century -- Case studies., Upper class -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century -- Case studies., Women benefactors -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century -- Case studies., Women -- history., Interpersonal Relations., Marriage -- history., Case studies., History. |
| الوصف: | "Companions Without Vows is the first detailed study of the companionate relationship among women in eighteenth-century England - a type of relationship so prevalent that it was nearly institutionalized. Drawing extensively upon primary documents and fictional narratives, Betty Rizzo describes the socioeconomic conditions that forced women to take on or to become companions and examines a number of actual companionate relationships." "As Rizzo points out, several factors fostered such relationships. Husbands and wives of the period lived largely separate social lives, yet decorum prohibited genteel women from attending engagements unaccompanied. Also, women of position needed - or insisted on having - social consultants and confidantes. Filling this need were many well-born young women without sufficient funds to live independently. Because family money and property were concentrated in the hands of eldest sons, few unattached daughters could afford to live in comfort on their own. As a result, they frequently had to seek the protection of female benefactors for whom they performed unpaid, nonmenial tasks, such as providing a hand at cards or simply offering pleasant company.". "The companionate relationship between women could assume many forms, Rizzo notes. it was often analogous to marriage, with one partner in command and the other in subservient attendance. Some women - particularly in the second half of the century - experimented with more altruistic models, establishing partnerships that were truly egalitarian. Rizzo explores these various types of relationships both in real life and in fiction, noting that much of the period's discourse about women's relationships can be seen as a tacit commentary on marriage. Many women writers, she contends, consistently portrayed the moral corruption that tainted companions as well as their superiors. Although few of these writers called openly for an end to gender inequality, Frances Burney, Sarah Fielding, Sarah Scott, Charlotte Smith, and others effectively subverted prevailing ideology by quietly experimenting with alternative models. The most notable of these efforts, says Rizzo, was the work of the Bath community of women, the ideas of which helped to produce both Sarah Scott's novel The History of Millenium Hall and a short-lived utopian experiment."--BOOK JACKET. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Ch. 1. Companionship: A Range of Possible Choices -- Ch. 2. The Socioeconomics -- Ch. 3. Satires of Tyrants and Toadeaters: Fielding and Collier -- Ch. 4. Elizabeth Chudleigh and Her Maids of Honor -- Ch. 5. Frances Burney and the Anatomy of Companionship -- Ch. 6. Parent and Child: Montagu and Gregory -- Ch. 7. Deputy Labor: Empowering Strategies I -- Ch. 8. Agents, Rivals, and Spies: Empowering Strategies II -- Ch. 9. Business Partners: Baddeley and Steele -- Ch. 10. The Domestic Triangle: The Veseys and Handcock -- Ch. 11. Sensibility and Romantic Friendship: Frances Greville and Lady Spencer -- Ch. 12. Friends: Molly Carter and Louisa Clarges -- Ch. 13. Reformers: Sarah Scott and Barbara Montagu. |
| Original Identifier: | ocm27224282 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-8203-1541-6 0-8203-1541-9 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-405) and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.003327144.5 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9780820315416 0820315419 |
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