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This article explains the main features of fatherhood in the Georgian era. It reveals that fathers were encouraged to be loving and tender towards offspring, to treat them as companions, to guide and instruct them without resort to physical punishment, and to provide for and protect them.

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My article is one of the first to focus on the guidance offered to men about their fathering and links changes in fathering styles to shifts in ideas about masculinity.

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This page is a summary of: ‘A Very Sensible Man’: Imagining Fatherhood in England c.1750–1830, History, June 2010, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-229x.2010.00486.x.
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