1. Cf. for this view of autobiographers on their childhood see Roy and Dorothy Porter, In Sickness and in Health: The British Experience (London: Fourth Estate, 1988) p. 76.
2. J.-J. Rousseau, Oeuvres complètes I (Paris: Pléiade, 1959) p. 174;
3. cf. Karl Joachim Weintraub, The Value of the Individual. Self and Circumstance in Autobiography (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978) p. 309.
4. Hubertus Teilenbach (ed.), Das Vaterbild im Abendland, 2 vols (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1978), and in this collection especially: Rudolf Sühnel, ‘Der Hausvater als Stellvertreter Gottes in der Familie: Das Vaterbild im englischen Puritanismus’, II, pp. 30–48.
5. Wayne Franits, ‘The Family at Grace. A Theme in Dutch Art of the Seventeenth Century’, Simiolus 16 (1986), pp. 36–49;