Main entry:

Palmer, Susan, 1956-

Title & Author:

The Soanes at home : domestic life at Lincoln's Inn Fields / Susan Palmer.

Publication:

[London] : Sir John Soane's Museum, 2002.

Description:

83, [3] pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 86).
The houses and the household. The neighbourhood; The houses; Pitshanger Manor; Chelsea Hospital; The household -- Servicing the house. Water and drains; Heating; Lighting; The kitchen -- The servants; daily round. Accommodation; The housemaids; The cook; The butler; The footman; The coachman; Leisure time; Arguments among the servants, 1827 -- Family life in the house. Morning toilet; Clothes; Daily activities; Evenings -- Food and drink. Mealtimes; Meat; Fish; Vegetables; Dairy products; Herbs and spices; Sugar and other dry goods; Fruit and desserts; Evening tea; Menus; Tea, Coffee and chocolate; Alcoholic drinks; Christmas -- The children -- Holidays. Chertsey; Margate; France; Harrogate; Bath -- Illness and death -- Epilogue.

Summary:

"This illustrated book, the product of many years' research by Susan Palmer, archivist to Sir John Soane's Museum, tells the story of the Soane family's social and domestic life. It paints a detailed picture of the Soanes' houses at Nos. 12 & 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields - how the buildings were heated, the servants' daily duties, what meals were cooked, wines purchased and teas drunk - even the fate of the family's pet dog." "The family life with their two children - in many ways as difficult as modern offspring - is brought to life and the below-stairs relationships of the servants are poignantly recorded." "The evening social whirl of visits to theatres and supper parties is chronicled, and the description of seaside holidays on the Kentish coast, when Margate was in vogue, depicts the social niceties of promenades and dances." "Eighty-nine illustrations, mostly in colour, from the extensive Museum archive produce a view of this London family's life and surroundings."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

0952553058
9780952553052

Subject:

Soane, John, 1753-1837.
Soane family.
Soane, John, 1753-1837 Homes and haunts.
Soane family Homes and haunts.
Sir John Soane's Museum.
Architects England Biography.
Architectes Angleterre Biographies.
Architects
Homes
England
Houses Great Britain England London.
Museums Great Britain England London.
English Architects.

Form/genre:

Exhibition Publications.
Biographies

Holdings:

Location: Library main 192964
Call No.: NA44.S676.25 .S5 1997
Status: Available