Women and the Country House in Ireland and Britain

Synopsis

The Architectural Endeavours Of The Widowed Jemima Yorke, Marchioness Grey / Amy Boyington -- Families Are Sometimes ... The Best At A Distance: Sisters And Sisters-in-law At Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire / Kerry Bristol -- Five Women Of Monksgrange / Philip Bull -- Declaring Loyalty To The Union: The Women Of Ulster's Country Houses And The Organization Of Ulster Day / Jonathan Cherry & Arlene Crampsie -- Madeline Wyndham Of Clouds And Mabel Morrison Of Fonthill / Caroline Dakers -- Catherine Maria Bury Of Charleville Castle, Co. Offaly, And The Design Of The Counyry House, 1800{u2013}12 / Judith Hill -- Lady Harriet Kavanagh, 1800{u2013}85, Matriarch And Guardian Of The Future / Edmund Joyce -- Sisterly Guidance: Elite Women, Sorority And The Life Cycle, 1770{u2013}1860 -- Ruth Larsen -- Lasting Monuments: Lady Gregory's Domesticated Landscape And Forestry / Anna Pilz -- The Rebecca Riots And A Female Landowner's Response To Welsh Rural Protest, 1843{u2013}4 / Lowri Ann Rees -- The Country House And The Great Famine: Mildred Darby's Novel, The Hunger / Ciarán Reilly -- Rosalind Howard, The Contradictory Countess Of Carlisle / Christopher Ridgway -- Elite Women And Their Recipe Books: The Case Of Dorothy Parsons And Her Booke Of Choyce Receipts, All Written With Her Owne Hand In 1666 / Regina Sexton -- I Will Do Myself The Pleasure Of Now Writing To You: Louisa Conolly's Letters To Her Sister Sarah Bunbury / Brendan Twomey -- Louisa Moore Of Moore Hall: A Life In Letters / Fiona White. Terence Dooley, Maeve O'riordan & Christopher Ridgway, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.