Abstract
This chapter focuses on Morley’s attempts to parent his stepchildren and nephew as they transitioned into adulthood—a time at which, Morley reasoned, children should be responsible for their own life paths. It documents how Morley moved between the positions of intimacy and distance as he aspired to parent with discreet indifference and assume the role of guide and friend. The chapter examines some flashpoints in liberal parenting, including differences between Morley and the children whom he raised over matters of education and religion.
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In his diaries, Morley occasionally makes use of shorthand. In this particular entry, he employs a symbol for the word been that I have not reproduced.
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I discuss the Elm Park Gardens residences at greater length elsewhere in the context of Morley’s efforts, following the departure of Guy and Johnson from the home, to establish an impersonal domesticity, which sought to render the abstractions of detachment part of a meaningfully lived experience. See chapter three of Morrison 2018a.
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I borrow the phrase radical chastity from Blake 1983: p. 108.
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Morrison, K.A. (2018). Theory and Practice II, 1883–1900. In: A Micro-History of Victorian Liberal Parenting. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72811-7_6
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