““In Vino Veritas””: A Stoneware Jug and the Contradictions of Temperance

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-10
Author(s):  
jamie franklin
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Temperance Movement ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
The Family ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Way

A large, stoneware jug in the collection of the Bennington Museum bears poignant witness to the temperance movement and contradictions inherent in Americans' attitudes towards the consumption of alcohol during the mid-nineteenth century. Made in 1859 by the Norton Stoneware Factory in Bennington, Vermont, the jug is an impressive 12 gallons in size and bears a prominent cobalt decoration depicting a compote of fruit resting on a base composed of two intertwined snakes. Above this decoration, on the jug's shoulder is a clay roundel inscribed: LUMAN P. NORTON/ 12 gals/1859/ IN VINO VERITAS. In addition to the date of manufacture and capacity, this mark notes who the jug was made for, a member of the family who owned the stoneware factory, and an interesting Latin phrase that can be translated, ““in wine [there is] truth.”” The combination of this phrase, the motif of the intertwined snakes, and Luman Preston Norton's role on Vermont's temperance movement are examined to provide a window into the conflicted attitudes about alcoholic consumption that existed in mid-nineteenth-century America and the way many tried to find a balance.

‘To wise for a woman’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Clark
Keyword(s):  
Marital Problems ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Family ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Way

While there were clear strategic aims in the way that marriages were made in the Howard dynasty during this period, the family was only unusual in that it operated at the very top of the aristocratic hierarchy and was therefore able to use marital alliances to successfully recover and bolster both status and finances. Where they were different, however, was in the experience of some of these women within marriage. By and large, the marriages made by and for members of the family, including women, seem to have been as successful as others of their class. However, three women close to the core of the dynasty experienced severe marital problems, even ‘failed’ marriages, almost simultaneously during the 1520s and 1530s. The records generated by these episodes tell us about the way in which the family operated as a whole, and the agency of women in this context, and this chapter therefore reconstructs these disputes for this purpose.

Book Reviews

Transfers ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 145-164
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Speed Limits ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Electrical Industry ◽  
The U.S ◽  
The Way

Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Speed Limits Charissa Terranova Mark Simpson, Trafficking Subjects: The Politics of Mobility in Nineteenth-century America Cotten SeilerTim Cresswell and Peter Merriman, Geographies of Mobilities: Practices, Spaces and Subjects Gopa SamantaAharon Kellerman, Personal Mobilities Marcel EndresMatthew Beaumont and Michael Freeman, eds., The Railway and Modernity: Time, Space, and the Machine Ensemble Dorit MüllerWilliam D. Middleton and William D. Middleton III, Frank Julian Sprague: Electrical Inventor and Engineer and Frederick Dalzell, Engineering Invention: Frank J. Sprague and the U.S. Electrical Industry Bob PostTom Vanderbilt, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What it Says About Us) Clay McShaneLee Friedlander, America By Car Charissa TerranovaDaniel Sperling and Deborah Gordon, Two Billion Cars: Driving towards Sustainability Rudi Volti

Is Blood Thicker than Water? Farm Servants and the Family in Nineteenth-Century North Devon

2013 ◽  
pp. 10-26
Author(s):  
Caroline Verney ◽  
Janet Few
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Community Cohesion ◽  
Core Theme ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
The North ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Way

This paper describes a small part of wider research into family and community in the nineteenth century undertaken by the late Caroline Verney. Her study of the north Devon parishes of Bittadon, Braunton, Georgeham, Marwood, Mortehoe and West Down centred on the way in which Victorian farming communities functioned, with investigations into kinship stemming from that core theme. At the same time, Janet Few was researching the role of kinship and its impact on community cohesion in three other areas of north Devon: Bulkworthy, Bucks Mills and Hatherleigh. Few's work on the farming parish of Bulkworthy is particularly relevant and has been used to complement Verney's findings for Mortehoe, which form the focus of this article. Together they have been used to investigate the employment of farm servants and the basis upon which they might have been chosen.

Constructing Gender: Sexual Slander in Nineteenth-Century America

1995 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J. King
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Social Concern ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
Legal Response ◽  
The Family ◽  
Secular Society ◽  
Sexual Slander ◽  
American Society ◽  
Legal Concepts

The decades following the American Revolution witnessed major changes in American society. As traditional means of social control eroded, an increasingly secular society turned to lawmakers—both judicial and legislative—to craft new norms. Nineteenth-century legislators and judges actively promoted new visions of the economy, politics, and society. No area of social concern escaped their attention. Recent scholarship focusing on women and the family has explored how lawmakers transformed pre-Revolutionary legal concepts in reaction to changes in the nature of the family itself. This article examines the legal response in one narrow intersection of law and society: the law of sexual slander.

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