Acknowledgements.- List of Illustrations.- List of Contributors.- Introduction: The Empire of the Father; H.Rogers & T.L.Broughton.- PART 1: RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES Fatherhood, Religious Belief and the Protection of Children in Nineteenth-Century English Families; M.Doolittle.- 'Married Men and the Fathers of Families': Fatherhood and Franchise Reform in Britain; M.McCormack.- 'What do you Want to Know About Next?' Charles Kingsley's Model of Educational Fatherhood; V.Sanders.- PART 2: PATTERNS OF INVOLVEMENT Father as Mother: The Image of the Widower with Children in Victorian Art; T.Sabatos.- Hands-on Fatherhood in Trollope's Novels; M.Markwick.- Father(ing) Christmas: Fatherhood, Gender and Modernity in Victorian and Edwardian England; N.Armstrong.- PART 3: A DIFFERENT CLASS? Father's Pride? Fatherhood in Industrialising Communities; A.Walker.- 'First in the House': Daughters on Working-Class Fathers and Fatherhood; H.Rogers.- 'Speechless with Grief': Bereavement and the Working-Class Father, c. 1880-1914; J-M.Strange.- PART 4: FRONTIERS OF FATHERHOOD Missionary 'Fathers' and Wayward 'Sons' in the South Pacific, 1797-1825; A.Twells.- A Wealth of Fatherhood: Paternity in American Adoption Narratives; C.Nelson.- Fatherhood Real, Imagined, Denied: British Men in Imperial India; E.Buettner.- Select Bibliography.- Index.