The Changing Life of the People: 18th Century European Popular
Culture (1715–1789) and 19th Century European “Changing Family”
Prepared for Ms. Abruzzese
December 10, 2010
MLA formatting
Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University.
***MTHS Media Center Website : Provides access to research online resources
and links, including databases.
**Databases: (To use any of the databases, from Home, you will need the
Remote Access Codes)
EBSCOHost Thousands of full text periodical and journal articles; search the
literature and biographical resources.
***ProQuest : SIRS Renaissance, Researcher and *Webselect (cross curriculum
databases)
ABC-CLIO History Reference Databases: Use Daily Life Through History
database for 18th and 19th century Europe
Facts On File 13 databases includes history, geography, etc
Jersey Clicks Articles, Newspapers, etc.
World Book Encyclopedia Online
AP Photo Images (great images provides context of images, videos, etc.)
Gale Litfinder and Literature Resource Center (Litfinder provides full text poetry
and short stories; Literature Resource Center provides full text criticisms)
***JSTOR : Scholarly Journals (cross curriculum)
**EBooks :
Gale Virtual Reference Library Maintains over 400 reference ebooks, on all
subjects, in a searchable database.
18th Century Europe
Marriage and the Family-
Late Marriage and Nuclear Families
Work away from home
Premarital Sex and Community Controls
Illegitimacy Explosion
Children and Education-
Childcare and nursing- wet nursing
Foundlings and Infanticide
Attitudes towards children
o Jean-Jacques Rousseau- Emile
Schools and Popular Literature
Food, Medicine, and New Consumption Habits-
Diets and Nutrition
Consumer Society
Medical Practitioners
o Purging
o Smallpox
Religion and Popular Culture-
Institutional church
o Jesuits
Protestant Revival
o Pietism
o Methodists
Catholic Piety
o Jansenism
Leisure and Recreation-
o Carnival
o Blood Sports
Websites:
General
Timeline
Comprehensive British Historical Timeline
BBC Timeline
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/timelines/british/index.shtml
The Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/index.php
Daily Life in the 18th-Century England by Kirsten Olsen
Online Book- available pgs 12-53 provide insight into life during this time.
http://books.google.com/books?id=o_hwrAoqxmQC&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=1
8th+century+breastfeeding&source=bl&ots=LhOkx_5GGO&sig=y6cEhWoSEr9bc
DKLAKqaB9tOZ24&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPR7,M
1
World History International
http://history-world.org/
Eighteenth-Century England
Multi-media learning resources on various aspect sof eighteenth-century cultural
history
http://www.umich.edu/~ece/index.html
Eighteenth Century Reading Room
http://18thcenturyreadingroom.wordpress.com/
Internet Library of Early Journals
A digital Library of 18th and 19th Century Journals
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
Mrs. Spectator’s Coffeehouse
A clearinghouse of online resources for researchers interested in the long 18th
century.
http://www.unbsj.ca/arts/english/jones/18thc/
Eighteenth Century Chronology
http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Chron/index.html
Eighteenth-Century European Dress
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/eudr/hd_eudr.htm
The European Enlightenment
From the resource page, in this site, you will be able to access information on
Women, William Hogarth and Rousseau.
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ENLIGHT/ENLIGHT.HTM
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ENLIGHT/18TH.HTM
The European Enlightenment: Women
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ENLIGHT/WOMEN.HTM
Eighteenth-Century Studies
http://18th.eserver.org/
Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2738
Early Modern Resources
http://www.earlymodernweb.org.uk/emr/
The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
http://ww3.wpunj.edu/~history/study/ws2/set3b.htm
18th Century Europe
http://ww3.wpunj.edu/~history/study/ws2/set2b.htm
Marriage and the Family
Early Eighteenth Century Newspaper Reports
http://grubstreet.rictornorton.co.uk/
People in Place
http://www.history.ac.uk/cmh/pip/index.html
Psychology Today: Marriage, a History
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20050506-000006.html
Paris Salons in the 18th Century
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/18salons.html
Marriage and the Economic Development of Western Europe 1500-1914
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/carbs/faculty/foreman-peckj/marriagestrasbourg2b.pdf
The non-nuclear family
Provides a perspective on the realities of marriage throughout history.
https://www.economist.com/diversions/millennium/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=34
6995
Illegitimacy and illegitimates in English history
http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/TEXTS/BASTARDY.PDF
Children and Education
Children’s Literature Lectures
The History of Childhood and The origins of Literature for Children
http://www.sonoma.edu/socsci/ukiah/feldman/english_342/lectures.html
Picturing Childhood: Illustrated Children's Books from University of California
Collections, 1550–1990
http://www.archive.org/details/picturingchildho00burl
Early Eighteenth Century Newspaper Reports
http://grubstreet.rictornorton.co.uk/
The History of Brestfeeding
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/the_history_of_breastfeeding.htm
La Leche League International: Wet Nursing and Cross Nursing
http://www.llli.org/llleaderweb/LV/LVJulAug95p53.html
The Foundling Museum
http://www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk/
The Enlightenment
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook10.html#The%20Enlightenment
Daniel DeFoe: On the Education of Women, 1719
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1719defoe-women.html
Rousseau: Emile on Education
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/pedagogies/rousseau/contents2.html
Rousseau : Emile
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5427
ABC-CLIO: Infant Mortality Rates in Europe
http://www.worldhistory.abc-
clio.com/Search/Display.aspx?categoryid=23&searchtext=family&type=simple&o
ption=all&entryid=318355&issublink=true&fromsearch=false
Food, Medicine and the First Consumption Habits
The First English Coffee Houses, c. 1670-1675
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1670coffee.html
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745): Hints Towards An Essay On Conversation, 1713
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1713swift-conversation.html
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762): Smallpox Vaccination in Turkey
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/montagu-smallpox.html
History of Drug Use: Ancients to 18th Century (keep clicking on link until
document opens)
http://atlantis.mendocino.edu/djenkins/Other%20AOD%20documents/Wk%205%
20HO%202%20Ancient%20Hx.doc
Foodtimeline
http://www.foodtimeline.org/food1.html
At Table: High Style in the 18th Century
http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmag/bk_issue/1996/sepoct/feat5.htm
Military Medicine through the 18th Century
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/milmedhist/chapter1.htm
Early Eighteenth Century Newspaper Reports
http://grubstreet.rictornorton.co.uk/
Dry Drunk: The Culture of Tobacco in 17th- and 18th-century Europe
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/drydrunk/intro.htm
18th Century Cuisine
http://18thccuisine.blogspot.com/
Religion and Popular Culture
Catholic Encyclopedia: Jansenius and Jansenism
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08285a.htm
The Protestant Reformation and its Influence (E-book Online)
http://www.archive.org/details/protestantreform00pres
Pietism and Methodism; or, the significance of German pietism in the origin and
early development of Methodism by Arthur Wilfred Nagler (E-book online)
http://www.archive.org/details/pietismandmetho00naglgoog
The History of Methodism by John Fletcher Hurst (E-book Online)
http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924007919339
Social System
ABC-CLIO: Poor Relief in Great Britain
http://www.worldhistory.abc-
clio.com/Search/Display.aspx?categoryid=31&searchtext=work&type=simple&opt
ion=all&searchsites=5%2c&entryid=309394&issublink=true&fromsearch=false
The 18th century town and its inhabitants
http://mars.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/towns.html
Leisure and Recreation
ABC-CLIO (blood-sports) Animal Rights Movement
http://www.worldhistory.abc-
clio.com/Search/Display.aspx?categoryid=26&entryid=309328&searchtext=blood
+sports&type=simple&option=all
Eighteenth-Century England
Recreation and Leisure
http://www.umich.edu/~ece/showcase/recreation.html
19th Century Topics
19 Century - The Changing Family
Premarital Sex and Marriage
o Illegitimacy Explosion
Prostitution
o My Secret Life
Kinship Ties
Gender Roles and Family Life
o Separate Spheres
o Franziska Tiburtius
Child Rearing
Sigmund Freud
British Newspapers 1800-1900
http://newspapers.bl.uk/blcs/
The Victorian Web
http://www.victorianweb.org/
From the National University of Singapore this site includes information about the
Victorian Era (i.e. philosophy, writers, literature, technology, religion, science.)
Victorian England
Briefly covers all things Victorian, such as: Diseases, Imperialism, the Queen, religion,
education, science, etc.
http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/VictorianEngland.htm
The Victorian Research Web
http://www.victorianresearch.org/other.html#guides
Women's thoughts about women (1860?)
http://www.archive.org/details/womensthoughtsab00crai
The ways of women in their physical, moral and intellectual relations
http://www.archive.org/details/wayswomeninthei00smitgoog
True Womanhood
http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/386/truewoman.html
Women in Soviet Society: equality, development and social change by Gail
Warshofsky Lapidus (ONLINE BOOK)
http://books.google.com/books?id=rtWfengNqQ8C&pg=PA21&dq=19th+century+
europe+society+marriage+AND+family&hl=en&ei=RAz9TKG6OsT38AbKkfnlCg&
sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&
q=19th%20century%20europe%20society%20marriage%20AND%20family&f=fal
se
Honor, Impotence, and Male Sexuality in Nineteenth – Century French Medicine.
(EBSCOhost Article)
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=24&hid=119&sid=40869de6-927c-
435b-8f22-
f5e805b1ff34%40sessionmgr114&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d
#db=aph&AN=7357586
The Women in Soviet Society
http://books.google.com/books?id=rtWfengNqQ8C&pg=PA21&dq=19th+century+
european+family+sex+OR+premaritial+OR+women&hl=en&ei=fyX9TIDHM4L68
Ab0ufjjCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=
onepage&q&f=false
A History of the Family as a Social and Educational Institution By Willystine
Goodsell
http://books.google.com/books?id=cAnaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA422&dq=%22industr
ial+revolution+AND+family%22&hl=en&ei=PSf9TJLNE8H68AadqZHjCg&sa=X&o
i=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#
The History of Private Life
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/plife_overview.cfm
Gender and Sexuality in Victorian England: An Analysis of The Autobiography
of Christopher Kirkland. (EBSCOhost Article)
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=22&hid=119&sid=40869de6-927c-
435b-8f22-
f5e805b1ff34%40sessionmgr114&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d
#db=f5h&AN=7703146
A History of Private Life, Volume IV: From the Fires of Revolution to the Great
War
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=28&hid=119&sid=40869de6-927c-
435b-8f22-
f5e805b1ff34%40sessionmgr114&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d
#db=lfh&AN=MOL0019100290#db=lfh&AN=MOL0019100290
Schnitzler’s Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture, 1815-1914
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=31&hid=119&sid=40869de6-927c-
435b-8f22-
f5e805b1ff34%40sessionmgr114&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d
#db=lfh&AN=MOL0300301762
ERAS OF SOCIAL MOBILITY IN 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY EUROPE.
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=14&hid=119&sid=10e61d6b-a1e1-
4e96-a80c-
ac6965efa34a%40sessionmgr111&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3
d#db=aph&AN=5013225
Sexuality.
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=18&hid=119&sid=10e61d6b-a1e1-
4e96-a80c-
ac6965efa34a%40sessionmgr111&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3
d#db=tfh&AN=18474159
Chapter 3: SEXUALITY.(Freud)
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=22&hid=119&sid=10e61d6b-a1e1-
4e96-a80c-
ac6965efa34a%40sessionmgr111&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3
d#db=lfh&AN=17693432
Governess: The Lives and Times of the Real Jane Eyres
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=36&hid=119&sid=10e61d6b-a1e1-
4e96-a80c-
ac6965efa34a%40sessionmgr111&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3
d#db=lfh&AN=MOL0300306026
"To Root the Old Woman out of Our Minds": Women Educationists and Plebeian
Culture in Late-Eighteenth-Century Britain.
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=37&hid=119&sid=10e61d6b-a1e1-
4e96-a80c-
ac6965efa34a%40sessionmgr111&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3
d#db=lfh&AN=20929267
Consistent contradictions: Prostitution and protective labour legislation in
nineteenth-century...
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=45&hid=119&sid=10e61d6b-a1e1-
4e96-a80c-
ac6965efa34a%40sessionmgr111&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3
d#db=aph&AN=9410255929
THE LOVE OF FINERY: FASHION AND THE FALLEN WOMAN IN
NINETEENTH CENTURY SOCIAL DISCOURSE
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=45&hid=119&sid=10e61d6b-a1e1-
4e96-a80c-
ac6965efa34a%40sessionmgr111&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3
d#db=aph&AN=6879747
Prostitution, considered in its moral, social & sanitary aspects, in London and
other large ... (1857) http://www.archive.org/details/prostitutioncon00actogoog