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The first study on masculinity to focus on the English landed gentry. It covers the period from 1700 to 1900 and is based on several thousand letters written by 19 families. It concentrates on the common experiences of sons' upbringing, particularly schooling, university or business, foreign travel, and the move to family life and fatherhood.

This is the second part of Harry GouldingÕs autobiography, following on from his account of his childhood years (1905 to 1927) growing up in working-class Grimsby (ÔHenry the NinthÕ) The details of his ordinary yet eccentric life were written down in longhand on sheets of paper rescued from a skip and lay dormant for many years after his death in 1985 until transcribed into two volumes. ÔManÕs EstateÕ deals with his volatile teaching career in Grimsby at both primary and secondary level; his lack of proficiency at school politics; his ÔcareersÕ as a local referee, pig-keeper and member of the Home Guard;his sonÕs triumph over early adversity; his final, happy years teaching and the leaving of Grimsby to try out various new experiences in the Blackpool area. It deals honestly with his social failings, his relationship with his cantankerous father and his views on education and gives a valuable insight into the lot of the humble teacher from the 1920s to the 1960s.

This study on masculinity focuses on the English landed gentry. It covers the period from 1700 to 1900 and is based on thousands of letters written by 19 families. It concentrates on the experiences of sons' upbringing, particularly schooling university or business, foreign travel, and the move to family life and fatherhood.--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Audrey Nealon is the owner of an estate sale business and finds alarming surprises in the shabby home of an elderly widow. One of the things she finds is the ring her mother was wearing the night she disappeared. Audrey relentlessly pursues clues to her family's troubled history, which will put her on a collision course with dangerous people who do not want her to find the truth.