Writing the familial past : historical and personal memoir in Sicily and England : political and social reminiscences, 1848-1870 by Tina Scalia Whitaker

Abstract

Among the British families who migrated to Sicily in the nineteenth century (such as the Sandersons, the Woodhouses, the Hoops, the Cossins, the Roses and the Gardeners), the Whitakers and the Inghams before them, are certainly those who left most traces of their commercial and cultural activities. There are still interesting and conspicuous testimonies to the direct and indirect contribution of the Whitakers and the Inghams to the improvement of the general economic conditions of the island and of the city of Palermo in particular.