Leonore Davidoff, the founding editor of Gender& History, is Research Professor in Social History, University of Essex. She is the author of numerous works in gender history including, with Catherine Hall,Family Fortunes, andThe Family Story with Megan Doolittle, Janet Fink and Katherine Holden.

Keith McClelland teaches history at Middlesex University, London, is co-editor ofGender& History, and is the author with Catherine Hall and Jane Rendall ofDefining the Victorian Nation.

List of Illustrations vii

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction 1

1 Mastered for Life: Servant and Wife in Victorian and Edwardian England 18

2 Landscape with Figures: Home and Community in English Society (with Jeanne LEsperance and Howard Newby) 41

3 The Rationalization of Housework 73

4 Class and Gender in Victorian England: The Case of Hannah Cullwick and A.J. Munby 103

5 The Separation of Home and Work? Landladies and Lodgers in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century England 151

6 The Role of Gender in the First Industrial Nation: Farming and the Countryside in England, 17801850 180

7 Where the Stranger Begins: The Question of Siblings in Historical Analysis 206

8 Regarding Some Old Husbands Tales: Public and Private in Feminist History 227

PART I: Adam Spoke First and Named the Orders of the World 231

PART II: As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap: Concepts and their

Consequences 249