Emma Griffin: The Good Mother
14:00
Sun 4 Nov 2012
The Barbour Room
New Generation Thinker
What makes a good mother today?
Historian Emma Griffin of the University of East Anglia turns to the poor of Victorian Britain to ask what made a good mother in families struggling to keep body and soul together. She finds that our own values and ideas about motherhood may not be as instinctive as we like to believe.
What makes a good mother today?
Historian Emma Griffin of the University of East Anglia turns to the poor of Victorian Britain to ask what made a good mother in families struggling to keep body and soul together. She finds that our own values and ideas about motherhood may not be as instinctive as we like to believe.