William Dawbarn: a Victorian life.
| dc.contributor.author | Yeo, W. F. | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Grant, Mariel | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-04-29T15:17:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-04-29T15:17:37Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2011 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-04-29 | |
| dc.degree.department | Dept. of History | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts M.A. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This biographical study accessed genealogical records, wills, probate records, and contemporary newspaper accounts to examine the lives of six generations of the middle-class merchant Dawbarn family of nineteenth-century Wisbech, Cambridgeshire and Liverpool. The purpose was to assess the extent to which the experiences of this Dissenter family, with a focus on third-generation businessman and author William Dawbarn (1819-1881), conform to the well-known story of the rise of the English middle class. The Dawbarns did conform to the commercial and social patterns established by the middle class: sons joined fathers’ businesses; religion was central to life; successful businessmen participated in local politics; membership in associations was common; and partible inheritance was the norm when passing wealth to the next generation. All of this was accomplished within a society which placed a high value on conformity. Yet a close reading of William Dawbarn’s writing reveals a benevolently eccentric individual. | en_US |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Graduate | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3265 | |
| dc.language | English | eng |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | en_US |
| dc.subject | businessman | en_US |
| dc.subject | eccentric | en_US |
| dc.subject | Victorian | en_US |
| dc.subject | Dawbarn | en_US |
| dc.title | William Dawbarn: a Victorian life. | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |