{"title":"\"These Small Sumptomes of My Obediense\": Negotiating Father-Son Conflict through Letter-Writing in Early Modern England","authors":"Adriana Benzaquén","doi":"10.1353/hcy.2024.a916837","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article explores the fraught relationship between an English adolescent, Edward Clarke, and his father through analysis of close to two hundred letters written between 1667 and 1672, while Edward—who would grow up to be John Locke's closest friend and a Whig MP—was a student at Oxford and the Inner Temple. I focus on money and health, the two topics that preoccupied Edward and his father the most, to show how they negotiated the terms of their relationship and grappled with issues of authority, status, duty and obligation, affection, and trust as the son's condition shifted gradually from dependence toward independence.","PeriodicalId":91623,"journal":{"name":"The journal of the history of childhood and youth","volume":" 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The journal of the history of childhood and youth","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2024.a916837","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract: This article explores the fraught relationship between an English adolescent, Edward Clarke, and his father through analysis of close to two hundred letters written between 1667 and 1672, while Edward—who would grow up to be John Locke's closest friend and a Whig MP—was a student at Oxford and the Inner Temple. I focus on money and health, the two topics that preoccupied Edward and his father the most, to show how they negotiated the terms of their relationship and grappled with issues of authority, status, duty and obligation, affection, and trust as the son's condition shifted gradually from dependence toward independence.
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