Prolonged Connections: The Rise of the Extended Family in Nineteenth-century England and America
- ISBN-10
- 0299110346
- ISBN-13
- 9780299110345
- Category
- Extended families
- Pages
- 282
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1987
- Publisher
- Steven Ruggles
- Author
- Steven Ruggles
Description
John Ruskin's vision of the Home, set down in 1865, has a decidedly pagan ring to if. "It is a sacred place, a vestal temple, a temple of the hearth watched over by Household Gods, before whose faces none may come but those they can ...
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