Reviews for Intensely family

The average rating for Intensely family based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-10-03 00:00:00 Daniel Herman Not sure how this got on my list. It's from 1983, when the author was a callow youth of 30. Looks like a decent book for the truly interested, but I believe I meant only to mark my interest in his most recent book(s).

Review # 2 was written on 2012-11-16 00:00:00 James Hart Good short work on the Victorian family, the way it changed from earlier eras and why.(Specialization/separation of work/home; longer life expectancy of the mother combined with a choice to have smaller families; children remaining at home longer, among others.) About half the book focuses on the families of Robert Louis Stevenson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Catharine Sedgwick, George Eliot, Samuel Butler, material that is used to illustrate specific facets of the Victorian family experience and that is thoroughly grounded in the broader social history. This book is rather repetitive in places, and if cut by 30 pages or so it would have been sharper. Still, an invaluable short work on the subject, dotted with memorable anecdotes related to its figures as well.