Marriage and Family Life in the Seventeenth Century: A Study of Gentry Families in England
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Doctor of Philosophy(PhD) Thesis. Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney.
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© Copyright 1988 Robyn Priestley
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This thesis looks at aspects of the family life of three gentry families and their kin throughout the seventeenth century. The families were chosen because a sufficient number of personal family documents survive to make it possible to discover a great deal beyond the bare facts of family structure. They are representative in the sense that they are a random sample taken from approximately the same class, the gentry, in three different counties. The selection was guided by a desire to find the norm rather than the exception.
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Priestley, R. (1988). Marriage and family life in the seventeenth century: A study of gentry families in England (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.