Gill Sutherland

Faith, Duty, and the Power of Mind

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the story of an English middle-class family and their fortunes. Centre-stage are the women members, Anne Jemima Clough and her niece, Blanche Athena Clough, who helped replace a model of education for girls which kept them in the home with one which gave them access to systematic study and eventually to professional employment. Faith, Duty and the Power of Mind shows what it might mean to lose Christian faith in nineteenth and early twentieth century England, and is an unusually attractive and distinctive contribution to modern British history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 559g
• ISBN-13: 9780521861557
• ISBN-10: 0521861551
• Artikelnr.: 21248502

Autorenporträt

Gillian Sutherland is Fellow, Gwatkin Lecturer and Director of Studies in History at Newnham College, Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Family trees
Introduction
1. Childhood and Charleston
2. 'A land...with strong foes beset'
3. Confirming a vocation
4. Family duty
5. The beginnings of Newnham
6. Enter Blanche Athena Clough
7. 'An ought which has to be reckoned with'
8. Re-grouping
9. War and its consequences
10. Salvage operations
11. Retirement
Conclusion
Abbreviations
Notes
Index.