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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Stott, Anne
Titre(s) : Wilberforce [Texte imprimé] : family and friends / Anne Stott
Publication : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012
Description matérielle : viii, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Comprend : Part I: The Abolitionist and his Circle. The Merchants' Children ; The Great Change
; 'Our Clapham Schemes'. ; Part II: In Search of a Wife. Wilberforce: Love and War
; 'Serious Duties': Henry Thornton and Marianne Sykes ; 'Jacob and Rachel': Zachary
Macaulay and Selina Mills ; 'Too precipitate'?: William Wilberforce and Barbara Spooner.
; Part III: The Families on the Common. 'Valuable Friends' ; Helpmeets ; Children
; White Death. ; Part IV: The Wilberforces at Home. 'Domestic Publicity' ; 'Ten
Thousand Anxieties' ; Elizabeth: a Daughter's Dilemma ; The Rolling Stone ; Afterlife.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [314]-322) and index
"At the age of thirty-seven, after a very short courtship, William Wilberforce married
Barbara Spooner, the daughter of a Midlands industrialist, and their first child was
born in the following year. His family life brought him both happiness and anxiety.
Convinced that he had been 'too long a Bachelor', he lacked confidence in his ability
to be a good husband and father. A great deal has been written about Wilberforce's
role in the abolition of the slave trade, but far less about his private life. Yet
this is the man who exchanged his prestigious Yorkshire constituency for an undemanding
pocket borough in order to devote himself to his family. In her innovative study,
Anne Stott casts fresh light on the abolitionist and his friends, the group of Evangelical
philanthropists retrospectively named the Clapham sect. While the men occupied important
public roles they were also deeply committed to the ideal of domesticity. The ideology
of the period depicted the middle-class home as a place of tranquil retreat from the
cares and temptations of public life, though the family crises depicted in this study
show that the reality was always more complex. With varying degrees of success, the
Clapham men and women brought their Evangelical piety to their patterns of courtship
and marriage, their philosophy of child-rearing, and their strategies in coping with
death and bereavement. For the first time, much of this story is told from the perspective
of the wives, and it is primarily through their voices that the book's themes of the
family, women and gender, childhood and education, sexuality, and intimacy are explored."--Publisher's
website
Sujet(s) : Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)
Esclavage -- Abolition -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle
Politique et gouvernement -- Grande-Bretagne -- 1800-1837
Politique et gouvernement -- Grande-Bretagne -- 1760-1820
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199699391 (hbk.) (acid-free paper). - ISBN 0199699399 (hbk.) (acid-free paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42615293k
Notice n° :
FRBNF42615293
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