Leonore Davidoff (1932-2014) was Emerita Research Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex and Founding Editor of Gender and History. One of the most influential historians of gender, her numerous publications included Worlds Between: Historical Perspectives on Gender and Class (1995) and Thicker than Water: Siblings and their Relations (2012).

Catherine Hall is Emerita Professor of History and Chair of the Centre for the Study of British Slave-ownership, UCL. Recent publications include Macaulay and Son: Architects of Imperial Britain (2012) and with Nicholas Draper, Keith McClelland, Katie Donington and Rachel Lang, Legacies of British Slave-ownership: Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain (2014).

Acknowledgements Introduction to the third edition Introduction Prologue Setting the scene Part One Religion and Ideology 1 'The one thing needful': religion and the middle class 2 'Ye are all one in Christ Jesus': men, women and religion 3 'The nursery of virtue': domestic ideology and the middle class Part Two Economic Structure and Opportunity 4 'A modest competency': men, women and property 5 'A man must act': men and the enterprise 6 'The hidden investment': women and the enterprise Part Three Everyday Life: Gender in Action 7 'Our family is a little world': family structure and relationships 8 'My own fireside': the creation of the middle-class home 9 'Lofty pine and clinging vine': living with gender in the middle class 10 'Improving times': men, women and the public sphere Epilogue Appendices Notes and references Select bibliography People index Subject index