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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Prologue | |
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| Introducing James Luckcock of Birmingham | |
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| What was the English middle class? - | |
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| Concepts and methods Setting the Scene Places: The town - Birmingham | |
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| The countryside | |
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| Essex and Suffolk People: The family shop - the Cadburys of Birmingham | |
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| The family pen - the Taylors of Essex | |
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| Religion and Ideology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| 'The one thing needful': religion and the middle class Church and chapel activity | |
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| The Evangelical revival and serious Christianity | |
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| Church against Dissent | |
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| The religious community | |
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| 'Ye are all one in Christ Jesus': men, women and religion Doctrines on manliness | |
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| Doctrines on femininity | |
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| The ministry | |
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| The minister's wife | |
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| 'bishop' of Birmingham | |
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| Church organization: women voting and women speaking - Laymen and women | |
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| 'The nursery of virtue': domestic ideology and the middle class The Queen Caroline affair | |
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| Middle-class readers and writers | |
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| William Cowper and Hannah More | |
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| Local writers on separate spheres | |
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| Domestic ideologies of the 1830s and 1840s | |
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| Economic Structure and Opportunity | |
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| Introduction | |
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| 'A modest competency': men, women and property Enterprise organization | |
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| Land and capital | |
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| Enterprise finance | |
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| Providing for dependants | |
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| The interdependence of enterprise, family and friends | |
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| The role of marriage in the enterprise | |
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| Training for the enterprise | |
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| Retirement from the enterprise | |
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| 'A man must act': men and the enterprise Middle-class men and occupations | |
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| The search for a 'sound commercial education' | |
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| Commerce and trade | |
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| Banks and banking | |
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| Manufacture | |
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| Farming - The professions | |
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| The salaried | |
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| 'The hidden investment': women and the enterprise Women and property | |
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| Women's contribution to the enterprise | |
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| The education of women and its effects | |
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| Women as teachers | |
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| Women as innkeepers | |
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| Women in trade | |
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| The marginal place of women in the economy | |
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| Women, men and occupational identity | |
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| How did women survive? | |
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| Everyday Life: Gender in Action | |
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| Introduction | |
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| 'Our family is a little world': family structure and relationships The role of marriage in family formation | |
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| Fatherhood | |
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| Motherhood | |
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| Children | |
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| Brothers and sisters | |
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| The role of wider kin | |
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| 'My own fireside': the creation of the middle-class home What was a home? | |
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| The separation of home from work | |
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| The meaning of the garden | |
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| The lay-out of the home | |
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| Running the home | |
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| The question of servants | |
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| 'Lofty pine and clinging vine': living with gender in the middle class Manners and gentility | |
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| Changing attitudes to sexuality | |
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| Mobility and gender | |
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| Gender and the social occasion | |
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| Gender as appearance | |
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| 'Improving times': men, women and the public sphere James Bisset of Birmingham | |
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| Voluntary associations | |
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| Philanthropic societies | |
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| Leisure and pleasure | |
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| Men, women and citizenship | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Three poems by local authors | |
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| Sources for the local study | |
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| Tables Notes and references | |
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| Select bibliography | |
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| People index | |
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| Subject index | |