1. Quoted in Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall, Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the Middle Class 1780–1850 (London: Routledge, 1987), p. 315; see also Family Fortunes ch. 3 for a rich discussion of domestic ideology.
2. Jessica Gerard, Country House Life: Family and Servants, 1815–1914 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994), pp. 130–6;
3. K. D. Reynolds, Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), pp. 28–42;
4. Amanda Vickery, The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998), ch. 4.
5. Patricia Branca, Silent Sisterhood: Middle-Class Women in the Victorian Home (London: Croom Helm, 1977), p. 40 and passim.