Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Family Fortunes: Marriage, Inheritance and Economic Challenges in Scotland c .1660–1800

Chapter 3 Victorian Professions: The Galvanising (and Shaping) Force of Death on Families

Chapter 4 “The Widows and Orphans of Servants Are Dying”: The Conflict of Family in the Design and Application of Nineteenth-Century Civil Servant Pensions

Chapter 5 Step Motherhood in the Nineteenth Century: Elinor Packe and Continuing Family Cohesiveness, 1900–1911

Chapter 6 Balancing the Family: Edward Wrench, Baslow G.P., c.1862–1890

Chapter 8 Conceptualising the ‘Perfect’ Family in Late Nineteenth-Century Philanthropic Institutions

Chapter 9 Negotiating the Blending of Families: Tension and Affection Between Step-Parents and Children in Early Modern England

Chapter 10 Family Beyond the Household: Constituting and Reconstituting as Kin

Chapter 11 Configuring and Re-configuring Families in Nineteenth-Century England