Imperial Families
Women writing home in Georgian Britain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4349067 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kate Smith (0000-0003-4077-1996, Adam Smith Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 843-860 |
| Publication date | 2015-11-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09612025.2014.975501 |
| OpenAlex | W1993904970 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
This article critically engages with the concept of home to question what home meant and how it was constructed in eighteenth-century Britain. It particularly focuses on elite imperial families for whom ideas of home were significant, yet fragile as family members became dispersed across ever-greater distances. It uses letters as its source base to examine how families managed to construct a sense of home and belonging despite different locations and underlines the important role that women played in organizing and completing the work of home building. In doing so this article challenges understandings of homes as stable entities and highlights how elite imperial families worked to constantly negotiate and construct them
Elite · Genealogy · Georgian · Linguistics · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.56 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2023 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |