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Be It Ever So Humble: Poverty, Fiction, and the Invention of the Middle-Class Home
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Be It Ever So Humble: Poverty, Fiction, and the Invention of the Middle-Class HomeBe It Ever So Humble: Poverty, Fiction, and the Invention of the Middle-Class Home

Before the rise of private homes as we now understand them, the realm of personal, private, and local relations in England was the parish, which was also the sphere of poverty management. Between the 1740s and the 1790s, legislators, political economists, reformers, and novelists transferred the parish system’s functions to another institution that promised self-sufficient prosperity: the laborer’s cottage. Expanding its scope beyond the parameters of literary history and previous studies of domesticity, Be It Ever So Humble posits that the modern middle-class home was conceived during the eighteenth century in England, and that its first inhabitants were the poor.

 
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Tags: parish, England, Humble, private, literary, Poverty
The Nine Tailors
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The Nine TailorsThe Nine Tailors

Nine tellerstrokes from the belfry of an ancient country church toll the death of an unknown man and call the famous Lord Peter Wimsey to one of his most brilliant cases, set in the atmosphere of a quiet parish in the strange, flat, fen-country of East Anglia
 
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Tags: quiet, atmosphere, cases, parish, strange, Tailors, brilliant
On the Parish - Micro-Politics of Poor Relief in Rural England c. 1550 - 1750
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On the Parish - Micro-Politics of Poor Relief in Rural England c. 1550 - 1750On the Parish - Micro-Politics of Poor Relief in Rural England c. 1550 - 1750

On the Parish? is a study of the experience of poor relief in the rural parishes of early modern England. It explores the relationships of paupers not only to the parish officers who administered the Elizabethan poor laws but also to their kinfolk and neighbours who continued to provide extensive networks of informal support.
 
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Tags: England, Parish, provide, continued, kinfolk, Relief, Micro-Politics, Rural
Unnatural History of Cypress Parish
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Unnatural History of Cypress ParishUnnatural History of Cypress Parish

Unnatural History of Cypress Parish by Elise Blackwell

Louis Proby is an old man now, sitting in his study in New Orleans awaiting what they say is a huge storm, Hurricane Katrina. As he watches the skies darken, he remembers his earlier life, as a watchful, curious young man filled with hunger and desire in Cypress Parish, the life that was washed away when the Mississippi River flooded in 1927. He remembers exactly how the Parish was sacrificed to those waters--because the city fathers said it was expendable.

 
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Tags: Parish, Cypress, Unnatural, remembers, History
The Friar's Tale (Canterbury Tales)
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The friar's tale (canterbuty tale)The friar's tale (canterbuty tale)

This story concerns a Summoner who is paid by a Bishop to summon sinners for Trial before the Church Court.

This particular Summoner has a team of spies and harlots who provide him with information concerning those living in the Parish, and the Summoner gathers this information to be used against them by the Church.  The Summoner blackmails the Parishioners to prevent him revealing the information to the Church Court.

 
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Tags: Summoner, Church, information, Court, against, Parish